The Lost City of Z

James Gray’s tremendous The Lost City Of Z finds meaning in the unknown.

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There’s much to love in this film, but what lingers are those lapidary details that often go missing in stories about great men, as if they had built the world alone and no child had ever raced down a road waving goodbye as a father disappeared into history.

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James Gray's resplendent Lost City of Z speaks to the explorer in all of us.

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Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattinson star in James Gray's epic about a British army officer who embarks on a long journey into the South American jungle.

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Director James Gray delivers a haunting, visionary film about Col. Percy Fawcett's disappearance in the Amazon.

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The Lost City of Z links every weathered look that Percy Fawcett throws to the heart of his spiritual yearning.

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In the stunning final shot, involving a mirror image and a trick of the eye, the writer-director of "The Lost City of Z" reminds us that we're all searching for something, or someone. Even if we don't get in the boat going up river.

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"The Lost City of Z" is about an Englishman who's determined to find an ancient city in the Brazilian jungle.

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The Lost City of Z goes above and beyond what many artists, even talents, possibly could’ve done with this kind of material.

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The film escapes the net of the evil European/noble savage dialectic by focusing on a driven lead character played by Charlie Hunnam.

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Still, the path to glory is the explorer’s fanatical passion, and Gray’s own precision and preoccupation is absorbing. “The Lost City Of Z” won’t be for all viewers, but its delicate devotion to itself is something sure to inspire admiration and obsessives.

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While on a 1906 expedition, explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) finds what he believes to be evidence of a lost civilisation. Unearthing this Amazonian El Dorado — ‘Z’ — becomes his obsession and, he believes, his destiny.

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In an effort to make Fawcett a logical, upstanding guy, the story never fully convinces us of his obsession with returning to find the lost city.

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Charlie Hunnam stars in filmmaker James Gray’s moody, speculative tale of real-life adventurer Percy Fawcett, who sought a fabled lost city in the jungles of Amazonia.

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In James Gray's new film, a British explorer makes the Amazon his obsession. It's 'Apocalypse Now' meets 'Masterpiece Theatre.'

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Gray is hampered, to an extent, by treading in the tracks of Werner Herzog, who went to South America with Klaus Kinski, his leading man (or, as Herzog calls him, “my best fiend”), and returned with the extraordinary “Aguirre, Wrath of God” (1972) and “Fitzcarraldo” (1982).

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Despite gorgeous cinematography and a strong cast, The Lost City of Z is a shallow and overly romantic film that falls into the trap of hero worship.

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The Lost City of Z never finds itself, doomed to aimlessly wander to an unsatisfying conclusion of a dream that betrays the best of men.

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The true-life tale of lost Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett loses its dramatic way.

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