By the half way point I was beginning to take back everything I said re Steven Soderbergh's dull-as-ditchwater Che: Part II - even he manages to drum up more tension than this.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Unfolds like a series of as outtakes from Hollywood productions

| Aug 30, 2009

There may be a good film here, but it struggles to break free of the cumbersome framework.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Andy Garcia's preposterous vanity project The Lost City is an all-singing, all-dancing version of the Cuban Revolution.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 5, 2008

The script is scrupulously even-handed, but Garcia can't seem to get a grip on this sprawl.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Great music and costumes, but with a woeful plot and jaw-droppingly stilted dialogue. Cuban-born Garcia's main complaint against Fidel seems to be that rich, corrupt Cubans could no longer dance the night away.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Not an embarrassment, but definitely a missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Andy Garcia's directorial debut is a flawed and overlong but nonetheless watchable drama with strong performances, a superb soundtrack and bizarre appearances from Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Garcia obviously has more ambition than skill.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2007

Garcia is just too earnest to make his dream project anything but deadly dull.

| Mar 1, 2007

It's by no means a flawless film, but it's a meaty one, and if you're a big fan of Andy Garcia, I'd definitely recommend it. (Plus, Bill Murray's in there.)

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2006

When it succeeds, the film conveys a bittersweet longing for a lost moment and the unfulfilled promise of a democratic Cuba.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2006

...plays like a confusing and inferior Caribbean analog to The Godfather, without anything like the narrative drive of Coppola's film.

Full Review | Original Score: 74/100 | Jul 22, 2006

While the soundtrack of Cuban dance music is superb, this historical drama is leaden and simply too long-winded for its own good.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2006

Shapeless stories that drift away from the revolution, puffed up by a biased take on 1959 Cuba with the hot air of romance.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2006

Garcia's storytelling lacks highs and lows and has far too much going on. And on.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 1, 2006

The result has a potluck rather than persuasive, integrated quality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2006

For a tribute to a lost city, Garcia has made a lost film.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 29, 2006

Book-ended by fine songs; in between, Garcia offers more than two hours of clumsy Coppola/Scorsese karaoke...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 26, 2006