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39 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 15
  3. Negative: 4 out of 15
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    75
    As sensuous as its title, Silk is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    58
    Sensual but profoundly silly, Silk is ultimately little more than softcore porn with arthouse trappings, a moony, dopily romantic "Red Shoe Diaries" variation for the NPR set.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    Everything is brought together at the end in a flash of revelation that is spectacularly underwhelming.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Joshua Kosman
    50
    Beautiful but flimsy film.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Cinematographer Alain Dostie's stunning, painterly cinematography is the best -- and perhaps only -- reason to endure this stunted epic.
  6. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Stephen Cole
    50
    Though elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast.
  7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Bill White
    50
    Failing to make a lick of rational sense, Silk grasps at poetic straws.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Crust
    50
    Though the film aspires to the epic with pretensions of deeper philosophical meaning, it ultimately settles for being the "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" of historical romances.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Joshua Katzman
    50
    A visually arresting period piece.
  10. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    42
    Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel.
  11. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    40
    Mr. Pitt is a reasonably photogenic specimen. But this actor, whose typical screen character is a broken, androgynous man-child, is disastrously miscast.
  12. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    By the end of Francois Gerard's plodding, uninvolving melodrama, his boredom will have nothing on yours.
  13. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    38
    By any standards, Silk is a bad movie: pretentious, stillborn, devoid of emotion.
  14. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    20
    Silk is a snooze. Vacuous, arid and terminally dull, this adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's freak bestseller hasn't a trace of real life or energy to it, and is hamstrung by a lethargic lead performance by Michael Pitt.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Julia Wallace
    10
    Silk isn't just bad. It's utterly mad. It stutters and hiccups from scene to scene, from country to country, but never once does it make narrative or emotional sense.
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5.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. JohnN.
    10
    Although the man has a beautiful and loving wife awaiting his return, he becomes obsessed with the lovely young concubine of a powerful Japanese feudal baron. His choice, love or desire. However, in real life neither of these beauties would give the mayor's son the time of day because he's a lethargic, vacuous, sleepwalking, unkempt zombie. Fortunately, the gorgeous wife, concubine, prostitute and cinematography overcome this egregious miscasting and make the film a wise masterpiece.… Full Review »
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