All too soon the party's over, after a final serving of cheese, and you start to wonder why anyone actually bothered.

~ Max Crawford -

All too soon the party's over, after a final serving of cheese, and you start to wonder why anyone actually bothered.

~ Max Crawford -

A movie with this kind of pedigree should not be a mess. And yet it is. Horribly so.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A movie with this kind of pedigree should not be a mess. And yet it is. Horribly so.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances are excellent, with Spencer conveying the emotions and suffering Tony endures admirably and Rush, as his alcoholic, abusive father is wonderful.

~ Darren Amner -

The air is heavy with irony, light with laughter and alive with love.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The air is heavy with irony, light with laughter and alive with love.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Ashcroft’s interpretation steers the story away from simple tragedy as we see Mortensen making gains as well as losses.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Ashcroft’s interpretation steers the story away from simple tragedy as we see Mortensen making gains as well as losses.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Kaufman's recreation of early 19th century Paris is more theatrical than real.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Kaufman's recreation of early 19th century Paris is more theatrical than real.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film bogs down in incomprehensible ya-ya. There are three or four plotlines going off in different directions.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film bogs down in incomprehensible ya-ya. There are three or four plotlines going off in different directions.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Visually, as well as in certain performances, the final instalment of Disneyworld Goes Hollywood has a healthy infusion of surrealism and a sense of humour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Visually, as well as in certain performances, the final instalment of Disneyworld Goes Hollywood has a healthy infusion of surrealism and a sense of humour.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Basing his character largely on Keith Richards and looking like a refugee from Adam Ant's Dog Eat Dog video, Johnny Depp crashes through the film, chewing up scenery and spitting it out with aplomb.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Basing his character largely on Keith Richards and looking like a refugee from Adam Ant's Dog Eat Dog video, Johnny Depp crashes through the film, chewing up scenery and spitting it out with aplomb.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Visually the film excels. There are scenes that lavish the mind's eye

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Visually the film excels. There are scenes that lavish the mind's eye

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A genuinely entertaining outing for the series, managing to generate both novelty and surprise while preserving all the best features of the preceding pictures.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A genuinely entertaining outing for the series, managing to generate both novelty and surprise while preserving all the best features of the preceding pictures.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Drab and strangely unfocused.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Drab and strangely unfocused.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film doesn't know what it's doing, or where it's going.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film doesn't know what it's doing, or where it's going.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

By positioning itself carefully between the imperatives of retaliatory justice and their fearful consequences, the movie is ultimately less a political thriller than a mesmerizing study of psychological breakdown.

~ The Exile -

By positioning itself carefully between the imperatives of retaliatory justice and their fearful consequences, the movie is ultimately less a political thriller than a mesmerizing study of psychological breakdown.

~ The Exile -

If it wasn't for Neeson, this would have yawned itself into unconsciousness.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

If it wasn't for Neeson, this would have yawned itself into unconsciousness.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Schizophrenic in its approach and vicious in its intent.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Schizophrenic in its approach and vicious in its intent.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Although there is a lot of humour, crowd-pleasing fun and some award-worthy performances, there seems to be a lack of edge and darkness here.

~ James Benefield -

Although there is a lot of humour, crowd-pleasing fun and some award-worthy performances, there seems to be a lack of edge and darkness here.

~ James Benefield -

What might have been a scintillating satire on the cynicism of legal shenanigans is a pleasant enough runaround.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

What might have been a scintillating satire on the cynicism of legal shenanigans is a pleasant enough runaround.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

An interesting example of technically inventive pastiche.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

An interesting example of technically inventive pastiche.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Taymor has succeeded in recreating an extraordinary time for an exceptional woman. She does so with love and imagination.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Taymor has succeeded in recreating an extraordinary time for an exceptional woman. She does so with love and imagination.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Just because you signal to an audience that you're purposefully making them watch paint dry does not make the experience of it any less tedious.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Just because you signal to an audience that you're purposefully making them watch paint dry does not make the experience of it any less tedious.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

[Pixar] have stuck to the golden rule - 'It's the story, stupid!'

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

[Pixar] have stuck to the golden rule - 'It's the story, stupid!'

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The thematic links are remarkable, because they reveal and conceal simultaneously.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The thematic links are remarkable, because they reveal and conceal simultaneously.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

When Liz dons her breast plate and rallies the troops at Tilbury, you'll want to put down your paella and rush out and sink a few Spanish ships yourself.

~ Tony Sullivan -

When Liz dons her breast plate and rallies the troops at Tilbury, you'll want to put down your paella and rush out and sink a few Spanish ships yourself.

~ Tony Sullivan -

The performances walk up and touch you.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The performances walk up and touch you.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

On stage, energetic performances can overcome slight characterisation and shallow plotting but onscreen, the wafer-thin characters and lack of plot thrust are exposed.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

On stage, energetic performances can overcome slight characterisation and shallow plotting but onscreen, the wafer-thin characters and lack of plot thrust are exposed.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The children, including Nico Liersch as Leisel's friend Rudy, are genuinely good, but they are strong performances in service of a film that doesn't quite work.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The children, including Nico Liersch as Leisel's friend Rudy, are genuinely good, but they are strong performances in service of a film that doesn't quite work.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Tornatore's film makes deft use of cinematic cliché to lead viewers astray.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Tornatore's film makes deft use of cinematic cliché to lead viewers astray.

~ Jennie Kermode -