| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
A pleasure in all ways.
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| 90 |
Chicago Reader
Few things are more enthralling than unrequited love, as demonstrated by this drama.
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| 80 |
Film.com
A deliciously romantic story, in all senses of the word.
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| 80 |
Time
Handsome, well-acted, richly textured adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's novel.
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
A riveting, unsentimental tragedy of unrequited love.
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| 75 |
New York Post
The pace slackens a little after the first hour, but the photography by Remi Adefarasin and music by Magnus Fiennes keep the emotion stoked.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Hot-blooded.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fiennes does this sort of inner pain thing exceedingly well, Tyler is beguiling and believable, and there is an edge of wit and grace to the proceedings.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(Fiennes's) Onegin is clueless to anything other than the sensual world, and is finally more repellent than sympathetic.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Tatyana, the embodiment of a heroine whose still waters run deep, requires more maturity than Tyler as yet possesses.
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
A handsome, somewhat draggy and abrupt film that's more memorable in snippets than as a whole.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Despite Fiennes' splendid moodiness and Tyler's radiant vulnerability, despite lovely settings... this movie is dull.
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| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
There is a cool, mannered elegance to the picture that I like, but it's dead at its center.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
A confident and promising directorial debut, one that has the feel of an experienced director to it, from the hypnotic unfolding of scenes to the finely observed character details.
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| 60 |
Film.com
(Tyler's) voice is still mall American, and Onegin's rejection of her is nowhere near as puzzling or as tragic as it's supposed to be.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Editor
A sumptuous yet unexceptional story.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Overall, this is the kind of thing that gives literary adaptations their bad name.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Makes you appreciate opera, or NoDoz.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Would have been a stronger movie if it didn't require a strong cup of coffee going in.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Feels too cramped, indoorsy and bloodless to catch romantic fire.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Unable to capture either its wit, psychological acuity, or formal rigor, the movie essentially reduces the schematic, seesaw narrative to doomy clichés.
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