The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a beautiful movie. The film's shooting locations are exquisite. The sets are stunning. The costumes are gorgeous. The actors are superlative. Too bad the movie sucks.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Feb 28, 2008

Why do good actors pop up in bad movies? More perplexingly, why do so many good actors end up in the same bad movie?

| Feb 9, 2006

How to turn an embarrassment of riches into an embarrassment, period.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Dec 14, 2005

leaves audience with the same unanswered question as the one asked by its narrator

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 27, 2005

the worst film of the year... a fraud of the highest order

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 12, 2005

A wobbly Bridge. Impressive cast can't save terrible script.

| Aug 3, 2005

As a director, McGuckian is overwhelmed by the immensity of her cast, and her misguided attempt to make a Hollywood epic on a European production budget.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 29, 2005

It is an intense philosophical undertaking that examines questions of faith, fate and chance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2005

Best characterized as an honourable folly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2005

Audiences may wonder why a picture with Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates and Harvey Keitel would be so bereft of hype. After you've endured the film, all 120 airless minutes, you'll understand the rationale behind the quiet release.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 15, 2005

An honorable but dull attempt to translate a neglected literary source to the screen.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2005

How bad could a movie be that features talent as serious as Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham and Geraldine Chaplin? That bad, alas.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 13, 2005

Though handsomely mounted, this parable of intersecting destinies and implacable tragedy is as lifeless as a wax tableau.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2005

The Bridge of San Luis Rey raises an important philosophical question: Is it better to fall to one's death from a rickety rope bridge overlooking a deep gorge or watch this miserable movie about several people sharing that awful fate?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 10, 2005

An endless powdered-wigs-and-feathered-pen slog.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Jun 10, 2005

So dully written and executed that you'll be wishing the production had collapsed instead of the swaying bridge of San Luis Rey.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 10, 2005

The Viceroy states that they are 'surrounded by an ocean of boredom' - then you realize you're swimming in it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2005

Even though director-adaptor Mary McGuckian expended much creative energy trying to pump original spirit into the characters, she never brings any of them to life.

| Jun 9, 2005

None of the performances work.

| Original Score: D | Jun 9, 2005

Unlike the bridge, the movie unravels at a very slow pace.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 9, 2005