By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your rotten tomatoes account against an email address associated with a. Set in ancient egypt under roman rule, agora follows the brilliant and. With rachel weisz, max minghella, oscar isaac, ashraf barhom. Agora is a 2009 spanish englishlanguage historical drama film directed by alejandro amenabar and written by amenabar and mateo gil. This is a movie about ideas, a drama based on the ancient war between science and superstition. Agora year 2009 genre drama romance adventure history biography type movies idmb rating 7. Agora, an historical drama set in alexandria at the turn of the fifth century is an international production in english that distorts history and slanders christianity by making the church leaders in the city at the time much worse than they really were. King arthur is an immensely thrilling adventure epic that tells the heroic true story behind one of historys greatest legends. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing agora near you.
Youll notice we replaced the 5star fan ratings with the rotten tomatoes audience score to help you choose a movie to watch. Youll notice we replaced the 5star fan ratings with the rotten tomatoes audience. Historical accuracy in the film agora ancient history. Jason blums five favorite films wingards five favorite films rotten tomatoes show list info. Prior to the films release, and more so following, christian writers criticized the movies historical inaccuracies and its depiction of christians specifically.
I went to see agora expecting an epic with swords, sandals and sex. It is the valiant tale of arthur clive owen and his bond of brotherhood with lancelot ioan gruffudd and the loyalty of the knights of. In the intense now no intenso agora photos view all photos 3 movie info. Agora was screened out of competition at the 2009 cannes film festival in may, and opened in spain on october 9, 2009 becoming the. Agora presents to the audience a glimpse into a world that is little known outside of the circles of ancient historians and classicists, and the film s portrayal of religious strife between the different groups in alexandria successfully shows a very complex ancient society. These are the top 100 movies from rotten tomatoes has shown. There are a few exciting battle sequences and the sets are lavish, but mostly the film meanders aimlessly for more than two hours. A historical drama set in roman egypt, concerning a slave. Agora alejandro amenabar, rachel weisz, max minghella. The biopic stars rachel weisz as hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4thcentury roman egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it. The mathematician and philosopher hypatia of alexandria was the daughter of the mathematician theon alexandricus ca.
All oscar isaac movies ranked by tomatometer rotten tomatoes. Made following the discovery of amateur footage shot in china in 1966 during the first and most radical stage of the. Narrated in first person, the film reflects on that which is revealed by four sets of images. Among its burdens are that hypatia of alexandria, the celebrated neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician, is worthy of veneration, and also that cyril of alexandria, saint and doctor of the church, is not. Agora is not specifically an antichristian film, as some have labeled it, but it. The fountain flopped, as did alejandro amenabars agora in 2009. Before he became llewyn davis, actor oscar isaac was the guy you saw constantly bringing it in secondary roles in highprofile projects, each career move taking him that much closer to the one perfect role that would make him a star. At its center is a woman who in the fourth century a. Agora is a histocial fiction film that looks at a dark moment in history and. Agora is intelligent, stirring and, as the cultural devastation wrought by. Alejandro amenabar celebrity profile check out the latest alejandro amenabar photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. In the intense now no intenso agora 2018 rotten tomatoes. The full programme film, my only question is what is fact and what is fiction, it seems to be a movie to show the negative side of both the jewish religion and christianity. I found swords and sandals, some unexpected opinions about sex, and a great deal more.