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75Risks trivializing history and pandering to feminist fantasies, but it may be the year's most fearless movie.
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75Funny, eccentric and touchingly just, combining a unique interpretation of the time with an offbeat sense of humor.
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74Banderas may have been crazy to make such a heady directorial debut, but it's hard not to be charmed by his ambitions.
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63The pieces don't always fit together smoothly, but there's a lot of flavorful work to savor.
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60Banderas directs capably enough to keep the film lively.
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60The opposition of the two dramas winds up in gratifyingly moral and philosophical territory.
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60Takes a while to arrive at what it has to say, but some of the performances kept me occupied in the meantime.
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60Banderas has taken a brilliant novel and made a small movie with lots of bright moments, and honestly, that's quite an accomplishment for his debut.
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50An ungainly fit of three stories that have no business being shoehorned into the same movie.
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50Inadvertently does with the civil rights movement exactly what Banderas set out not to do: trivializes it.
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50Mismatch of tone and material.
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50It's troubling to watch it stray and ramble as first-time director Antonio Banderas struggles to pull disparate elements together.
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50Were some group to launch a rival to the Oscars called The Wackys, it could do worse than make crazed Crazy its first recipient.
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50Tries with intermittent success to juggle two stories.
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50There's much to enjoy here as long as your expectations aren't too high.
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50Banderas' direction is a bit of everything and a lot of not much.
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50Feels like two films that aren't closely related enough, either tonally or narratively, to warrant their intertwining.
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50An Almodovar-like blend of laughs, drama and uplift, filled with the kinds of pop-art colors and pop-out performances that Almodovar loves.
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40Disappoints with its simplistic, hollow narrative and characters.
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40The two disparate yet thematically linked storylines are far too faithfully transposed for a feature-length treatment -- crammed together, they're denied the space to flesh out as a cohesive whole.
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40Somehow, Lucille's plight is meant to comment astutely on the civil-rights movement. Now that IS crazy.
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40The juxtaposition of grim reality and pure fantasy doesn't work...the entire film seem artificial and contrived.
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As campy as a flick by Banderas' evident artistic mentor, Pedro Almódovar.
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30(Griffith's) appearance often verges on the grotesque. Which, come to think of it, could be said of the movie as well.
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30Appears to be several different movies spliced together, with unfortunate results.
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30Mark Childress, who wrote the screenplay based upon his book of the same name, would have been better off leaving this Southern Gothic between two covers.
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25Although Banderas occasionally shows flashes of style, individual elements too often go together like grits in a puff pastry.
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