Neither more nor less than exactly what it was expected to be. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2020

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It is worse than a straightforward bad film, it is a middling, stagnant film that could have been extraordinary.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 28, 2008

i sta narkotika tha se riksei, i stin katatonia, an kaneis to lathos na tin pareis sta sobara os otidipote allo para eykairia eksaskisis ton kanibalistikon soy enstikton

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 14, 2008

A flat story, lean characters and a miscast lead make this a poor facsimile of period epics like Farewell My Concubine.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 23, 2007

Tremulous eroticism a-go-go, but it's all completely lifeless.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Dralon is more like it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2007

THE new Keira Knightley film is a visual delight. Unfortunately, the dialogue is far from delightful.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Crashing bore of a movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2007

A problematic period movie, Silk is anything but finely spun. Unaided by lacklusture performances from the leads, director Francois Girard seems more interested in crafting a beautiful travelogue than he does a moving melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Francois Girard's film proves a cross-cultural yawn, as if taking its cue from Pitt's blank-faced blandness and Keira Knightley's anaemic support.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Sluggish storytelling enlivens neither Pitt's infatuation with a local concubine nor the stubbornly feudal society it's set against. Worst of all, though, you just never give a toss.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

Gorgeous to look at but ultimately disappointing, Silk is let down by stilted direction, an extremely dull script and a badly miscast Michael Pitt.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2007

Dull period drama goes for sensuality over story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 22, 2007

The movie is at its best as a collage of environments representing states of mind.

| Oct 17, 2007

It is interesting and not riveting, lovely and not luxurious, good and not great. Some may even find it boring. It certainly is repetitive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2007

Franois Girard's Silk is not merely painterly. It might as well be a painting, for all that it eschews storytelling, forcing the viewer to scan the lush imagery in search of clues to what, if anything, might be going on.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2007

Though elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2007

Sensual but profoundly silly, Silk is ultimately little more than softcore porn with arthouse trappings, a moony, dopily romantic Red Shoe Diaries variation for the NPR set.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 22, 2007

While the locations are stunning and the cinematography (by Alain Dostie) frequently pulls off compositions of breathtaking beauty, the flimsy emotional journey left me bored and frustrated -- never a good combination.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 22, 2007