Critic Reviews

This is an amazingly ambitious movie, not so much because of the time and space it covers (a lot), but because Potter trusts us to follow her heroine through one damn thing after another.

It feels both big and little, concentrating as it does on the small movements in people's lives and the huge tides of history.

Melodramatic and strangely moving.

Though the film falls short of its aspirations, there's something magical about it. It's a poetic look at transience, betrayal, loss and doom.

A curious but intriguing movie that leaves you bemused and more than a little confused.

Ricci brings her trademark gravity to the wary Suzie, but Blanchett's role is the dazzler.

It's a strange and strangely unaffecting little drama -- but played very flat, with no particular emotional impact sought or achieved.

The imagery is lush, but the story is pretty cornball, with an ending that can only be called pure Hollywood. Only the marvelous Cate Blanchett transcends stereotype.

There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse.

While we may like what we see, it's impossible to comprehend what much of it means or why we should care.