| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The whole thing is beyond purple and yet so careful and reverent you can't even enjoy it as camp.

| Nov 19, 2005

But the biggest flaw in Neil Jordan's movie is how severely it contradicts the core of Graham Greene's novel.... What a sad and melancholy piece of work.

| Original Score: C | Dec 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Writer/director Neil Jordan takes the right approach to the material. Instead of trying to spruce it up, he simply moves in closer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2003

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The hopefulness and the hopelessness of the lives of Maurice, Henry and Sylvia are so beautifully rendered that a person would be hard-pressed not to feel something strong and reaffirming about the fates of the characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 29, 2003

| Original Score: B | Jan 10, 2003

Neil Jordan's film captures an unyielding sense, even almost to a fault, of romantic realism and its often underlying sadness.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 7, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

a demanding, thought-provoking film ...built around a theme many will find difficult to accept, that miracles can happen to perfectly ordinary, non-religious people.

| Jun 23, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Can anyone fail to recognize this as a fundamental betrayal of the author’s creative vision?

| Original Score: C | May 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 3, 2002

Depicts the way a lapsed Catholic is surprised by grace and a defiant unbeliever is convinced to believe in God.

| Mar 4, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2002

Too literary, too uncinematic, too darn old-fashioned for a contemporary audience.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 1, 2000