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75You go away exhilarated. The movie has been through as many hurdles getting here as dear, sweet Jolene, but sometimes the most engaging movies are the ones worth waiting for.
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70More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, Jolene remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles.
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60Chastain, an incandescent redhead with a heart-shaped face and round, shining eyes, does more justice to the part than it deserves.
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40They don't make movies like Jolene anymore, and that's a good thing.
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40The tone veers wildly, from wacky indie to melodramatic soap opera. Like the other men in her life, Ireland adores Jolene without entirely understanding her.
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30Jolene's skin may smell like warm milk to Brad, but to the rest of us it has curdled long before she leaves his bed.
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Oct 26, 201030Throughout, Chastain delivers a full-bodied debut performance, but she's ultimately stuck taking her wandering-soul protagonist far more seriously than it-or the film-deserves.
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30Though stretched to a two-hour run time, Doctorow's socially critical tale is reduced to queasy spectacle.
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Oct 26, 201020There's no pleasure in watching the repeated sexual exploitation of the eponymous heroine in Dan Ireland's adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's short story; that there's little purpose to this abuse, however, is absolutely unforgivable.
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0So bad it's almost (but not quite) good, Dan Ireland's Jolene is an unusually elaborate and excruciatingly long vanity production based on a short story by E.L. Doctorow ("Ragtime").