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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a film of great beauty and attention, watching it is a form of meditation.... Here mostly what I thought was, why must man sometimes be so cruel?" (Read the full review...) 711 words, 10/21/11
Daniel Gold, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...casts a transfixing spell... a lush and hypnotic examination of a painter's work and the times in which he lived... an extended contemplation of the creative process itself." (Read the full review...) 634 words, 09/14/11 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Singular and distinctive... like an art history seminar in vivid motion." (Read the full review...) 225 words, 09/30/11 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Viewers are taken inside peasant huts and down cobblestone streets... No description can do justice... must be seen to be fully appreciated." (Read the full review...) 246 words, 09/14/11 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Visually ravishing and consistently absorbing." (Read the full review...) 365 words, 09/23/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a film of great beauty and attention, watching it is a form of meditation.... Here mostly what I thought was, why must man sometimes be so cruel?" (Read the full review...) 711 words, 10/21/11 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "An extraordinary example of both art-historical interpretation and CGI as passport to unknown lands... a moving-image tribute to the still image..." (Read the full review...) 219 words, 09/14/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...while the visuals surpass films about art and artists like 2003's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring,' the missing story gives this picture an unfinished quality." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 11/11/11 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Twenty minutes in, your companion may throw up his or her arms and complain, 'This is like watching a painting dry.' " (Read the full review...) 410 words, 11/11/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Depending on your tastes, you'll either call 'The Mill and the Cross' a pretentious piece of ponderous pageantry or go crazy for it." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 11/10/11
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a portrait of suffering and subjugation that urges viewers to stop what they're doing and take notice of the world around them." (Read the full review...) 533 words, 10/14/11 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The movie rewards the patient viewer by putting her into the artist's shoes.... [but] Lech Majewski's deliberate pace sucks the air out of it." (Read the full review...) 338 words, 09/23/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: POOR (cg) "Intensely beautiful, challenging and too long for its own good.... This one truly is like watching paint dry." (Read the full review...) 205 words, 11/04/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Not enough can be said about lighting, a motionless camera, and the imagination used to create and foster the illusion that you've never seen anything like what you're being shown..." (Read the full review...) 566 words, 10/21/11 Leba Hertz, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "Beautiful scenes depict a deceptively tranquil period that evolves into religious and personal persecution under the rule of the Spanish Inquisition.... could have used a little more backstory." (Read the full review...) 131 words, 09/30/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "...frequently magical and breathtaking.... some folks will find the film rapturous, but it's equally clear that there are others whom it will drive crazy." (Read the full review...) 215 words, 11/04/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an art-history lesson and a spiritual exercise disguised as a movie. Into such an eerie and unfashionable cathedral, many are called but few are chosen." (Read the full review...) 225 words, 10/14/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "Visually stunning.... it might not be perfect, but it's stimulating, hypnotic and, in its unique way, exciting." (Read the full review...) 368 words, 01/20/12 Cary Darling, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...may not be to everyone's taste. Still, there's no denying that director Lech Majewski has created an imaginative and original work." (Read the full review...) 312 words, 01/13/12
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "An extraordinary example of both art-historical interpretation and CGI as passport to unknown lands... a moving-image tribute to the still image..." (Read the full review...) 219 words, 09/14/11 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...makes it more intellectually interesting but definitely more conceptually confusing with a host of deconstructive, postmodernist thrusts." (Read the full review...) 129 words, 10/20/11 Alison Willmore, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...has a look that isn't fully like its closest cinematic relatives, 'The Lady & The Duke' and 'Girl With A Pearl Earring.' It's exquisitely all its own." (Read the full review...) 399 words, 09/15/11 Lauren Wissot, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a mesmerizingly layered rendering of the creation of Pieter Bruegel's iconic 'The Way to Calvary'.... an intoxicating invention, as timeless and innovative as the wooden windmill." (Read the full review...) 448 words, 09/11/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Depending on your tastes, you'll either call 'The Mill and the Cross' a pretentious piece of ponderous pageantry or go crazy for it." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 11/10/11
Daniel Gold, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...casts a transfixing spell... a lush and hypnotic examination of a painter's work and the times in which he lived... an extended contemplation of the creative process itself." (Read the full review...) 634 words, 09/14/11 Mark Jenkins, NPR: OUTSTANDING "...ravishing.... visually complicated... The effect is rich and complex, as befits the artist's ambitions." (Read the full review...) 631 words, 09/15/11 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Singular and distinctive... like an art history seminar in vivid motion." (Read the full review...) 225 words, 09/30/11
Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "An extraordinary imaginative leap... combines old and new technologies allowing the viewer to live inside the painting -- Flemish master Pieter Bruegel's 1564 'The Procession to Calvary'..." (Read the full review...) 652 words, 01/27/11 Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "If ever a film cried out for the 3D treatment, it's 'The Mill & the Cross,' an ambitious but frustratingly flat attempt to explore, analyze and dramatize a masterpiece of 16th-century art." (Read the full review...) 686 words, 02/09/11 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Singular and distinctive... like an art history seminar in vivid motion." (Read the full review...) 225 words, 09/30/11 Daniel Gold, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...casts a transfixing spell... a lush and hypnotic examination of a painter's work and the times in which he lived... an extended contemplation of the creative process itself." (Read the full review...) 634 words, 09/14/11
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