| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Engaging if uneven.

| Feb 9, 2006

Since the robust 17th-century picaresque tale is not enjoying any current vogue, the success of "Restoration" can be considered a very pleasant surprise.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

The film is overcome by the rumbling workings of a creaky plot as the story grows more serious.

| Aug 15, 2002

The movie takes on a somber, fitful atmosphere of straining epic proportions. But it strays into an episodic bog that leaves it gasping for dramatic life.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Lively, lavish and grandly acted pageant.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

Even when all decked out in foppish finery, looking absolutely ridiculous to the objective eye, [Downey] can't find a way to focus your attention on him. Instead, in looking at him, all you can do is wonder: How much did those duds cost?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

What virtues the movie has are cosmetic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Restoration avoids the pitfalls of pious historical reconstructions and plunges right into the cauldron.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

While this sly and sumptuous new film offers just the single word as its title, it will make you think of all you learned about Restoration comedy -- and drama -- in that long-ago History of the Theater 101 course.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A garishly gilded, gloriously overstuffed costume drama.

| Jan 1, 2000