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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "Bardem is as riveting as he is wrenching... a film that sprawls too far in scope, when all we need to know is written on that deeply expressive face." (Read the full review...) 110 words, 02/03/11 Mary Pols, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...soulful, tragic and made with loving care. But it's also so gloomy that you're not sure who to recommend it to.... a true overdose of the tragedy of the human condition..." (Read the full review...) 832 words, 12/21/10 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Inarritu tries to juggle fatherhood, divorce, business ethics and ghosts. It's mountains to heap on an actor, and truly remarkable that Bardem manages it so beautifully." (Read the full review...) 606 words, 12/29/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Even the gorgeous Javier Bardem cannot save this downer drama.... it collapses beneath the weight of its own relentless seriousness." (Read the full review...) 70 words, 12/30/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "...unremittingly grim, introspective... offers little opportunity for us to step inside with Uxbal... all we can do is wait quietly in darkness until he's finished, or else go outside and get some light." (Read the full review...) 250 words, 12/31/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "...relentless but as riveting as the world a remarkable actor lets us see through Uxbal's eyes. Bravo, Bardem." (Read the full review...) 163 words, 12/17/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Bardem's soulful turn lends this haunting meditation a sense of hope and saves it from the contrived missteps it teeters toward.... indeed one of the year's best portrayals, rightly recognized by the academy." (Read the full review...) 459 words, 01/28/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...few actors have faces that project sorrow more completely than Bardem.... he drew me into the film and engaged my sympathy..." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 01/27/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Once again, Mr. González Iñárritu's fine and subtle instincts as a director of actors and a composer of shots are undermined by a melodramatic sense of story and a fundamentally sentimental conception of fate." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 12/29/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...it's all Bardem, and this great actor's careworn face and sensitive presence counts for a lot. He ultimately can't save the soul of 'Biutiful,' but he makes the journey easier." (Read the full review...) 309 words, 12/29/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...a story of hope, and from Bardem, a performance of staggering depth, unquestionably one of the year's best.... an emotional tsunami for both the actors and the audience." (Read the full review...) 849 words, 12/29/10 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the riveting work of two talented Spaniards: director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and actor Javier Bardem." (Read the full review...) 284 words, 12/29/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...the heaviest, most medicinal tragedy of this or any other year?" (Read the full review...) 637 words, 01/28/11 John Anderson, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Moving performance by Bardem lifts an otherwise deliberate and grim movie." (Read the full review...) 308 words, 02/04/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...few actors have faces that project sorrow more completely than Bardem.... he drew me into the film and engaged my sympathy..." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 01/27/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...even more morbidly obese than 'Babel' in terms of soggy ideas, elephantine with miserabilist humanism and redemption jibber-jabber." (Read the full review...) 210 words, 12/29/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a starkly emotive film... the physical and metaphysical realms seem equally desperate." (Read the full review...) 719 words, 02/11/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...oversized... the deep pockets of tenderness, the sizable missteps, the many flaws, and especially the hugely splendid (and Oscar-nominated) performance of Javier Bardem." (Read the full review...) 767 words, 02/11/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "If you can't stand the heat, stay away. But if you want to experience a terrific filmmaker and a superb performer at the height of their powers..." (Read the full review...) 176 words, 02/10/11
Sean O'Connell, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Watching Bardem occupy, embrace and ultimately own a multifaceted role like the one he plays in 'Biutiful' is a rare treat, and an absolute joy. Which is good, because joy is in short supply in Inarritu's film." (Read the full review...) 636 words, 01/28/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...immensely powerful and haunting... strong stuff, it will leave you shaken. There's poetry here, and catastrophe." (Read the full review...) 509 words, 02/04/11 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "We're not talking about just another night at the movies." (Read the full review...) 688 words, 01/28/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Ugliness earns the label 'art' in 'Biutiful'... muted, dingy colors and stark choices, a tale with a hint of heart, but not a single lighter moment to break the spell of despair." (Read the full review...) 510 words, 01/28/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...devastating.... Viewing the film is like listening to a funeral dirge magnificently performed." (Read the full review...) 545 words, 02/04/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "If Iñarritu's story occasionally is too straightforward (with the exception of the I-talk-to-dead-people bit), and never less than grim, Bardem's performance makes it not just bearable but rich and compelling." (Read the full review...) 516 words, 01/28/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Poverty and disease are conditions in 'Biutiful' in which one luxuriates. It's tragic realism. Still, Iñárritu sustains a level of absorbing grandiosity." (Read the full review...) 872 words, 01/28/11 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: EXCELLENT (cg) "...deftly delivers both the noisy grime at sweaty street level, and the hushed calm of the hovering ethereal." (Read the full review...) 331 words, 02/04/11 John Hartl, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Despite a commanding, Oscar-nominated performance by the always-interesting Javier Bardem, there's a quality of manufactured misery to 'Biutiful'..." (Read the full review...) 418 words, 02/04/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "...yet another, albeit sparer, Iñárritu gloom-fest.... It's not a slur on the director's considerable art to suggest that his might be the minority view." (Read the full review...) 255 words, 01/28/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The ambiguous pleasure that it offers is the nakedly pained performance of Oscar nominee Javier Bardem." (Read the full review...) 330 words, 02/04/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the feel-bad movie of the year... It's a one-note character that Bardem builds into a complex emotional chord, lessening the urge to dismiss 'Biutiful' solely as an endurance test for viewers." (Read the full review...) 264 words, 01/27/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "Javier Bardem is just plain mesmerizing... that's lucky for 'Biutiful,' an overloaded agony parade of a film that's such a grim march to devastation that it should be hard to watch. And, OK, it is." (Read the full review...) 315 words, 02/04/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a bleak, Oscar-nominated drama with an exceptional performance." (Read the full review...) 633 words, 01/28/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...even more morbidly obese than 'Babel' in terms of soggy ideas, elephantine with miserabilist humanism and redemption jibber-jabber." (Read the full review...) 210 words, 12/29/10 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: EXCELLENT (cg) "Though slow to start, once the story picks up its momentum it becomes an unstoppable force... truly an incredible piece of cinema." (Read the full review...) 543 words, 01/31/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...you know how the film is going to end, and you wish it would just get it over with.... a pretentious and maudlin indulgence in melodramatic overkill. In short, an Oscar nomination for Bardem." (Read the full review...) 165 words, 01/27/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: FAIR (cg) "But wait, that's not all! He also has terminal cancer. And his wife is sleeping with his brother. And he can communicate with the dead.... In spite of fine work from Bardem and Álvarez, an irritating, oppressive 150-minute dirge..." (Read the full review...) 368 words, 12/28/10 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...punishing, nuance-erasing ethos -- call it a muckraking imperative -- consistently distorts social tone... feels overstuffed, raising more questions than it's prepared to answer..." (Read the full review...) 650 words, 12/27/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "If you can't stand the heat, stay away. But if you want to experience a terrific filmmaker and a superb performer at the height of their powers..." (Read the full review...) 176 words, 02/10/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Iñárritu goes beyond simply conveying the sights and sounds of the Spanish city's mean streets -- you can practically feel the grit under your fingertips and inhale the aromas." (Read the full review...) 628 words, 01/26/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: VERY GOOD "The safe course is to recommend the film, which seems pitilessly long at 147 minutes, only for the transcendent quality of Javier Bardem's performance.... I couldn't stop thinking about the underworld that the movie depicts..." (Read the full review...) 296 words, 12/31/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Once again, Mr. González Iñárritu's fine and subtle instincts as a director of actors and a composer of shots are undermined by a melodramatic sense of story and a fundamentally sentimental conception of fate." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 12/29/10 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: MODERATE "...outstays its welcome, and the director still can't resist a tempting tangent... it throws the arc of the drama out of whack... Nonetheless, the film should be endured, for the sake of its leading man." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 01/24/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...a story of hope, and from Bardem, a performance of staggering depth, unquestionably one of the year's best.... an emotional tsunami for both the actors and the audience." (Read the full review...) 849 words, 12/29/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: POOR "This forced march through a chamber of personal and sociological horrors is difficult to endure but easy to forget.... a sodden mess of a movie..." (Read the full review...) 675 words, 02/03/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...its scant emotional rewards can't shake off the sense of a prodigiously gifted filmmaker stuck in a grim rut.... comes to feel like a millstone around the viewer's neck over the course of nearly 2 1/2 hours." (Read the full review...) 985 words, 05/17/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "...a gorgeous, melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and guilt. Some scenes are absolutely wrenching to behold. Others hit home with a punch to the solar plexus.... Inarritu's most intricate study yet of the human condition." (Read the full review...) 773 words, 05/17/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...a story of hope, and from Bardem, a performance of staggering depth, unquestionably one of the year's best.... an emotional tsunami for both the actors and the audience." (Read the full review...) 849 words, 12/29/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT (cg) "...relentlessly grim, borderline depressing, but ultimately rewarding... boasts yet another remarkable, Oscar-caliber performance from the versatile Javier Bardem..." (Read the full review...) 570 words, 12/13/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Once again, Mr. González Iñárritu's fine and subtle instincts as a director of actors and a composer of shots are undermined by a melodramatic sense of story and a fundamentally sentimental conception of fate." (Read the full review...) 842 words, 12/29/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: VERY GOOD "The safe course is to recommend the film, which seems pitilessly long at 147 minutes, only for the transcendent quality of Javier Bardem's performance.... I couldn't stop thinking about the underworld that the movie depicts..." (Read the full review...) 296 words, 12/31/10
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