What a waste of potential.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2010

The Vera Hruba Ralston of her time, Madonna has persisted in making movies despite all evidence that this is one medium in which no one wants to see or hear her.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2008

Both husband and wife seem to be in way over their heads.

| Mar 6, 2007

Every bit the cinematic shipwreck you'd imagine it to be.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2007

This waterlogged romantic comedy really does deserve to sink without trace.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2003

If there is one thing worse than a Guy Ritchie movie, it's a Guy Ritchie movie with Madonna in it.

| Oct 23, 2002

The only thing "swept away" is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 17, 2002

I wouldn't wish the stupefying dialogue of "Swept Away" on any actress, but to watch Madonna flounder through it is more punishment than I can bear.

| Oct 17, 2002

Two of the least likable characters I've seen in a romance in a long time.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2002

Is it a comedy? A drama? A romance? A cartoon?

Full Review | Oct 14, 2002

When cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy Giannini, Madonna gives her best performance since Abel Ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his Dangerous Game.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 12, 2002

For all his fidelity to the Wertmller screenplay, Ritchie has made a movie that is neither as attractive nor as repulsive, and certainly not as funny, as the original.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 12, 2002

The film turns out to have nothing going for it at all.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2002

Staggeringly dreadful romance.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Even camp status eludes this tepid and misguided picture.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 11, 2002

New ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Down the line, this movie may become a camp classic. At the moment, it's a stitch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

After a ghastly start, it becomes a curiously affecting document of a director trying to show the world why he loves his wife -- not the changeling pop star, but the actress.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2002

What Madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately, it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing, sometimes all at once.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Swept Away's worst crime is that it is butt-numbingly B-O-R-I-N-G.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 11, 2002