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Alynda Wheat, People: POOR (cg) "Rarely is such talent assembled for so richly embarrassing a project.... cringe-inducing..." (Read the full review...) 123 words, 12/09/10 Richard Corliss, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...there's enough visual verve to keep the eye occupied intelligently.... when the movie concentrates on Prospera and her menagerie of captives, its tone is sure and seductive." (Read the full review...) 682 words, 12/31/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "A pedigreed cast, led by the formidable Helen Mirren and including David Strathairn, Chris Cooper, Djimon Hounsou and Alfred Molina, cannot save the misguided mess... It's just too weird." (Read the full review...) 578 words, 12/09/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A majestic, brilliantly restrained Helen Mirren plays Prospera... she sets the bar here, and the cast rises to it." (Read the full review...) 60 words, 12/16/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (cg) "...an aloof, spectacle oriented adaptation... theatrically ambitious, musically busy, and in the end cinematically inert..." (Read the full review...) 140 words, 12/10/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: WEAK (cg) "No one can accuse visionary director Julie Taymor of lacking ambition.... I found myself wishing that Taymor would turn off the sound and fury and let 'The Tempest' speak for itself. My wish wasn't granted." (Read the full review...) 198 words, 12/10/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "Mirren keeps the film on track. But incomprehensible shouting and pointless shenanigans obscure subtle moments. Despite a superb lead performance, and unaided by thunderclaps and incarnations, 'The Tempest' is drizzly and drab." (Read the full review...) 384 words, 12/10/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Taymor doesn't capture Shakespeare's tone (or his meaning, I believe), but she certainly has boldness in her reinvention." (Read the full review...) 801 words, 12/16/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "Ms. Taymor's overscaled sense of stage spectacle can be impressive and effective, even moving, but her three-dimensional, high-volume compositions translate awkwardly into the cosmos of cinema..." (Read the full review...) 951 words, 12/10/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "...like a high-minded midnight movie, filled with Ricky's-style costumes, black swans, sprites that flit across the screen and a cave filled with boiling beakers." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 12/10/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Julie Taymor, a filmmaking savant of extraordinary vision and voice, suddenly and surprisingly folds. This is a tentative film and a disappointment after the brutal brilliance of the writer-director's adaptation of the Bard's 'Titus'..." (Read the full review...) 889 words, 12/10/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: POOR (cg) "...a surprisingly unengaging and charmless fantasy.... more tedious than actually funny." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 12/10/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...a pretty frustrating adaptation of Shakespeare's play, one that dog-paddles around in ever-more-frenetic circles, searching for a way inside the material." (Read the full review...) 474 words, 12/17/10 John Anderson, New York Newsday: WEAK (cg) "Production design masquerading as Shakespeare.... seems like so much scholastic cluelessness.... a bewildering work." (Read the full review...) 334 words, 12/17/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Although it falls off precipitously, it's better to have Julie Taymor's 'The Tempest' than not: The first half-hour is nearly as unfettered as Shakespeare's language." (Read the full review...) 360 words, 12/13/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Taymor doesn't capture Shakespeare's tone (or his meaning, I believe), but she certainly has boldness in her reinvention." (Read the full review...) 801 words, 12/16/10 Ernest Hardy, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...visuals are alternately inspired and horrible (dated CGI), never approaching the giddy anachronism of Taymor's cinematic debut, 'Titus'... the film lacks a pulse." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 12/08/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "...with so much going for it, why does 'The Tempest' become a mere storm in a teacup? The reasons are many." (Read the full review...) 624 words, 12/17/10 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...just another example of middling, muddled Shakespeare, a far less dynamic adaptation than Taymor managed in 'Titus,' her 1999 version of 'Titus Andronicus.' " (Read the full review...) 666 words, 12/17/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "I've upped the rating for the poetry. That guy Shakespeare could write." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 12/16/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "...great character designs... for the stage. On screen, they end up making the movie feel smaller and more claustrophobic than it should, despite it's photogenic, big-as-all-outdoors Hawaiian setting." (Read the full review...) 628 words, 12/17/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "Boldly Taymor changes Prospero's gender, casting the magnificent Helen Mirren as Prospera... But there is little else magical about Taymor's flatfooted rendition of Shakespeare's late-career play..." (Read the full review...) 291 words, 12/17/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: WEAK (cg) "The effects are dazzling, the cast is stellar, the play is timeless, the movie is wretched.... yet another miscalculation in a film that should leave us bedazzled but merely renders us dazed." (Read the full review...) 422 words, 12/17/10 Lawson Taitte, Dallas Morning News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...adapts Shakespeare to the screen with boldness and imagination. Bard buffs are likely to love it, despite the liberties it takes.... long prized as Shakespeare's poetic farewell to his stage career..." (Read the full review...) 589 words, 12/17/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "Taymor's works are too much of a too muchness, inventive without a sense of play, creative without taking any joy in the creation.... 'The Tempest' is typical Taymor, if in a minor key." (Read the full review...) 715 words, 12/17/10 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...not a mediocre film. It is, by turns, a great and awful film.... What's great is Helen Mirren as Prospero... What's awful is the rustic comedy... It's unimaginatively staged and poorly acted by everyone involved..." (Read the full review...) 821 words, 12/10/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's hard to know exactly what to think while watching Julie Taymor's 'The Tempest,' a movie that veers from ethereal beauty (its closing credit sequence, as a book of magic softly drowns in a dark sea, is a stunner) to mystifying cheesiness." (Read the full review...) 387 words, 12/17/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "...overflows with startling imagery... when Taymor hits a groove -- dazzling." (Read the full review...) 269 words, 12/17/10
Ernest Hardy, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...visuals are alternately inspired and horrible (dated CGI), never approaching the giddy anachronism of Taymor's cinematic debut, 'Titus'... the film lacks a pulse." (Read the full review...) 236 words, 12/08/10 S.I. Rosenbaum, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Mirren's Prospera is fierce and creepy and bitter, as she should be. But the film left me feeling unsatisfied.... it is full of missed opportunities." (Read the full review...) 632 words, 12/16/10 Keith Phipps, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...not stunning but it is sturdy, a handsome-enough showcase of a film that never really comes to life. It plays like a challenge politely declined." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 12/09/10 Aaron Cutler, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...isn't as disastrous as it could have been, though it does fundamentally fail Shakespeare's play.... actors are so busy laughing and shouting the jokes, the comedy in particular suffers." (Read the full review...) 768 words, 10/02/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "I've upped the rating for the poetry. That guy Shakespeare could write." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 12/16/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: VERY GOOD (cg) "...messy but thrilling... a lovely, mysterious film, and a gorgeously cinematic mounting of the Bard the likes of which you'd never, ever see onstage." (Read the full review...) 298 words, 03/07/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "Ms. Taymor's overscaled sense of stage spectacle can be impressive and effective, even moving, but her three-dimensional, high-volume compositions translate awkwardly into the cosmos of cinema..." (Read the full review...) 951 words, 12/10/10 David Denby, New Yorker: VERY GOOD "Taymor has played with Shakepeare's text -- switching genders, and inventing, dropping, and transposing passages -- but there's an emotional gain.... we can enjoy the movie's strengths, including the dark hard-baked terrain and the solid acting..." (Read the full review...) 261 words, 12/13/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Julie Taymor, a filmmaking savant of extraordinary vision and voice, suddenly and surprisingly folds. This is a tentative film and a disappointment after the brutal brilliance of the writer-director's adaptation of the Bard's 'Titus'..." (Read the full review...) 889 words, 12/10/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: FAIR "...waxes and wanes with its cast, some of whom are fully up to the task posed by Shakespearean dialogue and some of whom just aren't." (Read the full review...) 923 words, 12/10/10
Leslie Felperin, Daily Variety: WEAK "...so kitschy, yet curiously drab and banal, that even supporters may hope Julie Taymor will break her staff and drown her book.... it's a poor, bare, fork'd thing." (Read the full review...) 881 words, 09/11/10 Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: MODERATE "...looks disappointingly middle-of-the-road. Even the great Helen Mirren is steady and reliable but unexciting.... an attractive and easy-to-digest production..." (Read the full review...) 944 words, 09/13/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Julie Taymor, a filmmaking savant of extraordinary vision and voice, suddenly and surprisingly folds. This is a tentative film and a disappointment after the brutal brilliance of the writer-director's adaptation of the Bard's 'Titus'..." (Read the full review...) 889 words, 12/10/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "...bold and innovative but largely unsuccessful... disappointingly incoherent, variegating between different modes of presentation; the visual style and pacing often change from sequence to sequence, but with no apparent logic or reason." (Read the full review...) 926 words, 11/16/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "Ms. Taymor's overscaled sense of stage spectacle can be impressive and effective, even moving, but her three-dimensional, high-volume compositions translate awkwardly into the cosmos of cinema..." (Read the full review...) 951 words, 12/10/10
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