Sunshine

A powerful film.

An incredibly ambitious film and one of the most highly accomplished of the year.

The filmmaking is uninspired and Fiennes inexplicably plays three different characters with exactly the same acting style.

For filmgoers not interested in history, Sunshine might be a three-hour investment they may not want to undertake.

Many of the plot points seem belabored because they're introduced in the voice-over, then ploddingly dramatized, then analyzed by the family over meals.

Well-intentioned but never entirely engaging chronicle.

That this mess should come from the hand of Istvan Szabo, the brilliant Hungarian director of "Mephisto" and "Colonel Redl," is the real shocker.