| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...certainly worth seeing...but the film misses some crucial charge..." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...a brainy romance." more... |
A- |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"... gorgeous, somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising." more... |
B- |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"Possession certainly qualifies as an old-fashioned romance, but it offers enough laughs and twists to qualify as a shiny new treat." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"In the end, Possession becomes a contemporary love affair that just might seize your soul." more... |
B- |
Film Journal International
Erica Abeel |
"...a guilty pleasure..." more... |
B- |
filmcritic.com
Jeremiah Kipp |
"While it might make a charming book-on-tape for the Oprah crowd, this 'love loves to love love' hokum masquerades as a real movie." more... |
D+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...witty, literate and mesmerizing..." more... |
A- |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"...frustratingly uneven..." more... |
C+ |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...fairly satisfying..." more... |
B |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"It falls far short of poetry, but it's not bad prose." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"Possession is compelling material..." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...despite the good efforts of (Gwyneth) Paltrow and (Aaron) Eckhart, the modern love story pales..." more... |
B- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"..an intelligent literary mystery story that holds interest and is intermittently affecting, but it never soars." more... |
B- |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...should have been something special, yet curiously, it isn't." more... |
C+ |
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
"...seems plagued by visual shortcomings." more... |
B- |
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