Well-produced and acted, the movie's understated, honorable tone never grabbed box-office audiences or critics but provides useful background information for those seeking more history about Galapagos and its impact on humanity.

| Aug 24, 2021

Watching Amiel's intelligently scripted, beautifully shot and handsomely acted film, it's hard to fathom why so many people in the States (and elsewhere) get so worked up about Darwin.

| Nov 24, 2020

Creation is not half as smart as it pretends to be. It's the kind of movie that tells you what to think, and feel, every step of the way. Though it starts out with great promise.

| Jul 26, 2019

For a movie about someone as complex and important as Darwin, it's just not as interesting as it should be. I wish everyone involved had tried a little bit harder.

| Mar 9, 2019

An elegant, melancholy movie about storytelling, science vs. religion, family, life, and death.

| Sep 24, 2014

It became tedious when focusing on his [Darwin's] brittle emotions, often in a non-linear and random sort of way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2012

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

Director Jon Amiel has delivered on the promise of a good script, with a film that has a pleasing sense of forward motion, characters who suffer deeply, but are attractive because of it, morally, for the way they struggle through with love and belief.

| Jul 16, 2010

Jon Amiel's film about Charles Darwin is a poorly structured and frequently drab affair focused on Darwin's daughter Annie, with occasional bursts of energy thanks to the wildlife cinematography and bouts of Victorian bonhomie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 15, 2010

Best described as Finding Neverland meets A Beautiful Mind, Creation meanders in dramatic urgency at times, but never loses a total connection with its audience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2010

The film indulges in one little bit of overkill towards the end, so unnecessary, but overall Creation is a very fine film indeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2010

Creation is an emotionally complex film that examines faith, love, grief and passion through the key events that propelled Darwin to finish one of the most important books ever written.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2010

The chief culprits are a laboured, poorly structured script by Aussie John Collee; the hackneyed device of having Darwin interact with the ghost of his dead daughter; and Jon Amiel's heavy-handed direction.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 13, 2010

With solid performances, this film provides an interesting alternative look at one of the most influential scientists of the modern era.

| Jul 13, 2010

It's an intelligent and emotional film, which (judging by the struggle the filmmakers had of getting an American distributor) proves that Darwin is still making people think, more than 120 years after his death.

| Jul 13, 2010

Like the best of breeds, Creation is somewhat of a mixed bag.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2010

For the most part, it's a sombre and gloomy story about a dark period in Charles and Emma Darwin's lives in which the profoundly Christian Emma is in spiritual conflict with her husband over his scientific approach to the origin of species, including man

| Jul 11, 2010

Shows that all faith, any faith, is made stronger through questioning and emotional trial.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 9, 2010

A mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 7, 2010

Disappointingly soapy drama about the domestic life of Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany). Jennifer Connelly plays his wife, Emma. A squandered opportunity.

| Original Score: 77/100 | Jul 3, 2010