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Good Year, A
EMAILPRINTTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 33 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama
Written by:
Marc Klein
Peter Mayle (book)
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 10, 2006
DVD: February 27, 2007
Running Time: 118 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for language and some sexual content
Starring Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore, and Didier Bourdon
Based on the novel by Peter Mayle, this is the story of an Englishman (Crowe) who suddenly finds himself the owner of a small vineyard in Provence.
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What The Critics Said
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
Gorgeous photography and strong acting keep the formula from becoming stale. For those who don't mind pictures that fall into predictable rhythms, A Good Year represents a pleasant diversion.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
A shamelessly enjoyable retread, an ode to la belle vie that has been well turned on a factory spindle.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Ridley Scott's A Good Year is a bonbon made by a mechanic, a well-intentioned diversion put together by someone who clumsily adds the right ingredients in the wrong proportions at the wrong time. But sometimes, if you get the sugar level close to right, you can do OK, and A Good Year offers some pretty basic pleasures that movies often fail to give us these days.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Apart from the movie's moments of flesh and fantasy, it lacks the lyric impulse that would make the swank fantasy take flight.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Because Crowe is hamstrung by his role, he never strikes the requisite sparks with Cotillard. This is quite an achievement, since her beauty is on par with Provence's.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It's an art-house genre piece, very much in the tradition of "Enchanted April," "Shirley Valentine" and "Under the Tuscan Sun." But, a few charming scenes aside, A Good Year is in the hands of the wrong star and wrong director.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Scott embraces the lightness of the material instead of trying to give it unnecessary weight, and even if he's far from the ideal filmmaker to choreograph bits of slapstick, A Good Year is never less than visually ravishing.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
May not be vintage stuff, but it goes down fairly smoothly.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The scenery is glorious; you can almost feel the sunshine and smell the wine. But Crowe and Scott are bulls in Mayle's china shop. Like an assertive Burgundy served with a delicate fish, they're a classic wrong pairing.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole
Fans of both Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe should not be too bummed with the mild sedative that is A Good Year.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
The overall effect is one of a sumptuously laid table where the main course is overcooked.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The plot is like a sudoku puzzle with all but one square filled in.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
It's difficult to ignore the fact that they've created a romantic comedy that has almost no romance and even less comedy.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Though he invests every ounce of his considerable charisma in the lead role, Russell Crowe still comes across as a man unworthy of the paradise offered to him.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Russell Crowe is invariably involving on screen, and Ridley Scott is a splendid director when the material is right. No film they collaborate on will be devoid of interest, but A Good Year almost is.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
There's a lot of self-conscious talk about the importance of timing, but the tony sense of entitlement tends to dampen any laughs. The movie functions best as a middle-class Euro-postcard along the lines of "Chocolat" or "Under the Tuscan Sun."
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
A Good Year is a three-P movie: pleasant, pretty and predictable. One might add piddling.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nathan Lee
Scott can do mayhem, dystopia, and the rampaging alien (extraterrestrial, android, Somali, Demi Moore) with the best of them, but the breezy touch is not his forte.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves
The film, for all its pretensions of revelatory, life-altering enlightenment, is actually about as deep as a wading pool, as substantive as cotton candy.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
A simple repast consisting of sometimes strained slapsticky comedy, a sweet romance and a life lesson learned, this little picnic doesn't amount to much but goes down easily enough.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
Even judged by the not excessively demanding standards of middle-aged renovation fantasies, A Good Year isn’t much.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Crowe, despite his loutish rep, is forever surprising viewers by slipping snugly into the disparate characters he plays. This time he surprises by failing. Oh, he can do engaging as smartly as he does stalwart or tortured, but he gets sabotaged by the cloying script.
Read Full Review >Empire Dan Jolin
The Merlot to "Sideways" Pinot, this is one of those middling movies that, while never terrible, also never really impresses.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
You sense in every frame the strain to be lighthearted. Consequently, A Good Year is at times downright clumsy. You know what the filmmakers are trying to achieve and see the labor going into the attempt, but for them to fall so short is unsettling.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
If nothing else, this adaptation of Peter Mayle's umpteenth ode to livin' la vie en Provence will make you wonder about Ridley Scott and the directorial aging process.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Like a fragile Provence wine left too long in the sun, Ridley Scott's romantic comedy A Good Year spoiled somewhere between the publication of Peter Mayle's novel and this cockamamie adaptation.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Russell Crowe may find himself discovering the simple joys of life in A Good Year, but audiences will be checking their watches during this joyless attempt at comedy.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe attempt light romantic comedy in A Good Year, and the results are as grindingly discordant as a punk band writing a suite of waltzes.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
There isn't a milliliter of honest feeling from start to finish, and precious little comedy or romance.
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 27 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Edward L gave it a10:
This is one of my favorite romantic comedies.
Rasty R gave it a10:
Excellent movie with great characters. Maybe plot is some way predicable but anyway movie presents great entertainment.
Anne B. gave it a10:
I love this movie. I don't know why the critics didn't like it. If you have ever been to Provence this movie gives you a real taste of what it's like. Not to mention, it's a great story about how there is more to life than money. I really enjoyed it.
Maghan C. gave it an8:
F-y'all. My boy Russell is hot, and so is this movie. The soundtrack was incredible!
Beth G. gave it a10:
Absolutely brilliant. Russell Crowe is incredible. The whole story is interesting, funny, romantic, and entertaining. I loved it.
Linda L. gave it a4:
It's hard to believe Russell Crowe could be this bad. He's such a fantastic actor that I wanted to believe he could do OK in this change-of-pace role, but it's just not his cup of chardonnay. Something I haven't seen mentioned: The soundtrack here is horrible! It's incongruous, annoying, irrelevant; a smart, pleasant score might have helped (a little).
Cole O. gave it a1:
Bloody awful. Crowe utterly unconvincing. No chemistry among the cast, numerous plot gaffes, overdone direction, way overdone soundtrack.
