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Mary Pols, Time: POOR "Jolie, at a career peak for icy hauteur, is so untouchably regal that pairing her with a frumped-up Depp seems like an interspecies mistake, like having a swan mate with an affable duck." (Read the full review...) 754 words, 12/10/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "If you're in the mood for mindless, escapist fun -- dazzling scenery, elegant evenings, decadent hotel suites and expensive clothes -- you'll be fine.... a decent diversion." (Read the full review...) 686 words, 12/09/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "...sidesteps the aggressive, wham-bam tone of cheeky-violent romps from 'The Mexican' to 'Knight and Day.' Unfortunately, it doesn't come up with a whole lot to replace that energy. It's American cheese with Euro glaze." (Read the full review...) 531 words, 12/10/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR (cg) "...deserves burial at the bottom of the 2010 dung heap. It offers talented people trapped in creative inertia.... reaches its own kind of perfection -- it fails on every conceivable level." (Read the full review...) 312 words, 12/10/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: POOR (cg) "...the snore-inducing mood doesn't get any better even when the obligatory chase scenes occur. Perhaps the only selling point is its historic Italian setting. On all other fronts, the film fails to make a connection." (Read the full review...) 387 words, 12/10/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: MODERATE (cg) "It doesn't matter that the plot is absurd. That goes with the territory.... [but] no one seems to have alerted Depp that the movie is a farce." (Read the full review...) 744 words, 12/09/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...consistently looks glorious... After a slow start, things move along at a clip sufficient to keep most viewers interested, if not completely engaged.... As pointless diversions go, it has some things going for it, but not enough for a wholehearted recommendation." (Read the full review...) 828 words, 12/11/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "[Director Henckel von Donnersmarck's] main job seems to have been to find new and flattering ways to shoot Ms. Jolie as she catwalks from Paris to Venice in soaring heels.... She never ignites, and neither does the movie." (Read the full review...) 885 words, 12/10/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "...an uninspired star matchup with travelogue shots thrown in.... the trip 'The Tourist' takes you on winds up a dozer, not a doozy." (Read the full review...) 424 words, 12/10/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "...sums itself up in a single line of dialogue: 'Who would have thought your tastes were so provincial?' " (Read the full review...) 487 words, 12/10/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "I saw the 'Tourist' trailer three times and still couldn't make out the premise. Good thing Venice photographs well." (Read the full review...) 479 words, 12/10/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "Beautiful faces, beautiful places and a fast-moving plot - what more do you want?" (Read the full review...) 332 words, 12/10/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE (cg) "It doesn't matter that the plot is absurd. That goes with the territory.... [but] no one seems to have alerted Depp that the movie is a farce." (Read the full review...) 744 words, 12/09/10 Michelle Orange, Village Voice: POOR "...with no there there, a teasing minimum of scripted effervescence, and little chemistry to keep the leads on point, the plot just gimps around the harbors of Venice." (Read the full review...) 522 words, 12/11/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: WEAK (cg) "...possibly the year's laziest and most implausible thriller scenario, and that's saying something in an annus horribilis that also includes the likes of 'Knight and Day' and 'Killers.' " (Read the full review...) 512 words, 12/10/10 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...a patchwork of improbabilities, which labours to distract from its cracks through star wattage and a superficial coat of polish. The results aren't terrible, just curiously underwhelming given the movie's potential." (Read the full review...) 557 words, 12/10/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: GOOD (cg) "Novedad, originalidad y riesgo no son precisamente ingredientes que el director pretenda que formen parte de su película." (Read the full review...) 666 words, 12/10/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...lifeless.... paper-thin characters and a movie that has no idea where it's going or how to get there in an entertaining fashion." (Read the full review...) 369 words, 12/09/10
John Anderson, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "...an insubstantial, tension-free thriller..." (Read the full review...) 711 words, 12/10/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "...alarmingly charmless... notable for the total absence of movie-star heat that movie stars are paid unseemly sums to radiate." (Read the full review...) 487 words, 12/10/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: WEAK (cg) "...she's transparently benign, and he's cool, and with those two little variations, half the movie's mystery and tension go right out the window." (Read the full review...) 812 words, 12/10/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...the script piles the preposterous on top of the absurd and the film's thin charms dissipate, revealing the creaking movie star contraption underneath.... a formula romantic thriller... failings aside, there are worse ways to kill 100 minutes..." (Read the full review...) 592 words, 12/10/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: POOR (cg) "...a hollow, soulless exercise that ambles when it should sprint..." (Read the full review...) 464 words, 12/10/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: MODERATE (cg) "...the story is just ridiculous, with silly twists and obvious turns. Its stars are attractive and the settings are gorgeous, making 'The Tourist' OK to visit for a while." (Read the full review...) 493 words, 12/10/10 Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a polished romantic distraction and a brief trip along the canals of Venice with some assured company.... a nice piece of counterprogramming..." (Read the full review...) 446 words, 12/10/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...a slow and silly action-comedy romantic-thriller..." (Read the full review...) 574 words, 12/10/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an old-fashioned travelogue. Pretty people. Pretty city. A pleasant, if shallow, diversion for a winter's day." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 12/10/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...a thin story, dependent on a disappointing final twist, and a surprising lack of chemistry between the two glamorous stars.... like a beautifully decorated shop window -- with no shop behind it." (Read the full review...) 337 words, 12/10/10 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...an inconsequential shrug of a film, a would-be light thriller that's so deficient in the genre's essentials -- such as witty dialogue, intriguing characters and surprising yet credible plot turns -- that you're embarrassed for everyone involved." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 12/10/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (cg) "What [it] lacks in thrills is compensated by Depp's amusing version of a schlub, Jolie's skill as a walking mannequin draped in finery, and their combined, combustible chemistry." (Read the full review...) 448 words, 12/09/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: WEAK (cg) "...nothing to get excited about. Which is somewhat problematic since it's supposed to be a thriller." (Read the full review...) 287 words, 12/10/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: POOR (cg) "...gets sillier as the plot crawls along, its pace so slow that the movie could well put Ambien out of business once it starts showing up on late-night cable TV." (Read the full review...) 530 words, 12/10/10
Michelle Orange, Village Voice: POOR "...with no there there, a teasing minimum of scripted effervescence, and little chemistry to keep the leads on point, the plot just gimps around the harbors of Venice." (Read the full review...) 522 words, 12/11/10 Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend: MODERATE (cg) "...nearly works as a slow-paced, romantic drama. Unfortunately this isn't a slow-paced, romantic drama; it's supposed to be some kind of action-thriller." (Read the full review...) 493 words, 12/10/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...more an inert knockoff of 'Charade' than a recharging of 'The Bourne Identity'... you'd never guess that Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck also directed the Oscar-winning 'The Lives of Others.' " (Read the full review...) 162 words, 12/16/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: FAIR (cg) "...meat-and-potatoes direction makes 'The Tourist' astonishingly lifeless and awkward, reducing two of the world's biggest movie stars to something akin to shy, pimply teenagers on their first date." (Read the full review...) 354 words, 12/09/10 Nick Schager, Slant: POOR (cg) "...epitomizing this inert affair is Depp, who, without a pirate ship or Tim Burton's makeup case at his disposal, seems positively asleep." (Read the full review...) 491 words, 12/09/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...lifeless.... paper-thin characters and a movie that has no idea where it's going or how to get there in an entertaining fashion." (Read the full review...) 369 words, 12/09/10 Edward Adams, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "...cat and mouse film regrettably feels more like a stripped down version of the worst Bond film, without the 007. In other words, a pompous bore." (Read the full review...) 634 words, 12/10/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "A stunning combination of obvious and stupid... all-around inept wet-blanket of a film manages to sap all the movie-star appeal out of both Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie..." (Read the full review...) 356 words, 12/17/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: POOR "...just plain grisly. This woefully botched mystery-adventure-thriller-caper-romance-comedy, or whatever it was meant to be, is no fun at all." (Read the full review...) 261 words, 12/10/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "[Director Henckel von Donnersmarck's] main job seems to have been to find new and flattering ways to shoot Ms. Jolie as she catwalks from Paris to Venice in soaring heels.... She never ignites, and neither does the movie." (Read the full review...) 885 words, 12/10/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: POOR "...the last hour of the movie foundered in a morass of unearned epiphanies, improbable chase scenes, and the kind of enraging last-minute plot twists that abruptly rob the foregoing film of any and all possible meaning." (Read the full review...) 705 words, 12/10/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: FAIR "...after I tell you that [Jolie] looks smashing and that Donnersmarck, cinematographer John Seale and their production team create picture-postcard images of several ravishing Venetian locations, there isn't a lot left to say about 'The Tourist.' " (Read the full review...) 1,017 words, 12/10/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: FAIR "...sumptuous but stultifying lark sets up a quasi-Hitchcockian intrigue between two strangers abroad, but smothers any thrills or sparks in a haze of self-regard." (Read the full review...) 1,013 words, 12/08/10 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "Staggeringly misjudged in virtually every department... [a] zero-chemistry pairing of Angelina Jolie and Depp... Surely [director] Donnersmarck did not set out to remake 'Death in Venice,' but artistically, that is what has been achieved." (Read the full review...) 812 words, 12/08/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "...there is no rapport between the two stars, each one charismatic in his or her right, but failing to establish any chemistry.... a failure on any level, as a romantic thriller, as an actioner, as a suspenser shot against picaresque locations in Paris and Venice." (Read the full review...) 412 words, 12/09/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: WEAK "[Director Henckel von Donnersmarck's] main job seems to have been to find new and flattering ways to shoot Ms. Jolie as she catwalks from Paris to Venice in soaring heels.... She never ignites, and neither does the movie." (Read the full review...) 885 words, 12/10/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: POOR "...just plain grisly. This woefully botched mystery-adventure-thriller-caper-romance-comedy, or whatever it was meant to be, is no fun at all." (Read the full review...) 261 words, 12/10/10
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