The role, one of the meatiest of Mr. Rush's career, is equal in flash and complexity to his turns as the pianist David Helfgott in "Shine" and the Marquis de Sade in "Quills."
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Village Voice
Village Voice
Rush and Davis perform strikingly against type, suffusing an otherwise average genre pic with quiet dignity.
Fingleton turned his own story into a feel-good fable; neither Martin McGrath's gorgeous cinematography nor the hypnotic score by Run Lola Run(1998) composers Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil's can compensate.
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New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Rush has never played anyone this starkly unsympathetic, and he proves to be very good at playing very bad.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Without them (Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis), the melodramatic chronicle of real-life swimmer Tony Fingleton's formative years would have very little going for it.