The film has a defining contemporary hipness, and features good work by Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. But it's more a meditation on its source than a filming of it.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 19, 2023

Where the film fails is in its commercial proclivity to centre the narrative trajectory around a fairly asinine updating of the Pip/Estella love-match into a soppy romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2019

Visually stunning retelling has nudity, lots of swearing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2016

Cuarn and company end up throwing all the style they've got at the film... to compensate for a perpetually stalled drama.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 22, 2013

In the end, shiny surfaces are just that--surfaces, with nothing necessarily underneath.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 30, 2009

It's a fairly minor film, but quite lovely and successful at creating its own time and place.

| Jan 9, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 25, 2004

Charles Dickens' novel has been pared to the bone and set in the present day, and the result is a beautifully shot mess. The characters' motivations could not be any less clear.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Aug 11, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

The film's exectution is more of a tragedy than the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

his film doesn't have anything to say, it just wants to make a fashion statement: Pretty people should get to do stuff other people don't get to do.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Nov 1, 2002

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Sua 'moral' pode at ser simples, como em todas as fbulas, mas o processo pela qual 'ensinada' interessante - e espantosamente otimista.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002

The drama has a surface charm and panache that draws out the romantic in all of us.

| Mar 1, 2002

Una obra maestra.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 31, 2001

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2001

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2001

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

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 1, 2000