| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"Blanchett is excellent and the movie's quite smart, but Soderbergh's I-can-make-'em-like-they-used-to artifice gets in the way." more... |
B- |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"...peculiar and unsatisfying..." more... |
C- |
E! Online
Alex Markerson |
"...unintentionally goofy..." more... |
C- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...Soderbergh has re-created not only the kind of story told in the 1940s, but the kind of technical production Hollywood gloried in more than half a century ago, too." more... |
B |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"Noirs this good don't come along every day, or even every year." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Soderbergh uses 1940s studio filmmaking to investigate the dark deeds only hinted at in those classic films." more... |
B+ |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...the movie is best appreciated as an exercise in vintage Hollywood style." more... |
B |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
"...they don't make them like they used to even when they try." more... |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...it concentrates so single-mindedly on the mechanics of the narrative that it loses sight of its characters." more... |
B- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...pure moviegoing bliss." more... |
A- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"The story isn't gripping or even coherent. There is no real romance. " more... |
D+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...far from the worst movie of 2006, but it may be the most disappointing." more... |
C- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...technically stunning but narratively and thematically hollow." more... |
C |
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