| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Those who have read something about this will get more out of the movies, but it's not compulsory. I saw both parts in one day and the experience was absorbing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2009

The Guevara portrayed here has humour but no irony: his commitment to the revolutionary ethos leaves little room for doubt, neurosis, or private loyalties of any kind.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2009

A major disappointment. Soderbergh has stripped the story of most of its drama and though Del Toro, who won Best Actor at Cannes last year, is very convincing as Che, this Spanish-language film almost seems like an anti-movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2009

There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries

| Mar 6, 2009

A potentially great title-role performance by Benicio Del Toro, which won him the best actor award at Cannes, is buried beneath Soderbergh's stylistic tics and a defiant lack of dramatic tension.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 20, 2009

One thing's for certain: whether it's a meditation on guerrilla warfare, on Che or on moviemaking itself, you've seen nothing like it and are unlikely to ever again.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 20, 2009

Che, the story of a failed revolutionary, also fails as a film.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 23, 2009

In the end Che isn't really about a hero or a man; it's about the mechanics of guerrilla warfare, the day-to-day workings of an insurgency.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 23, 2009

You can smell the gun smoke and taste the cigars.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2009

The film's last chapter is arid yet breathtaking cinema, marked by despairing visuals and a climax that withers, not winds, to a close.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 16, 2009

If Soderbergh's ambition was to make us feel just how dull it would be to a woods-dwelling communist guerrilla, he succeeded.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 16, 2009

In so many ways, Soderbergh's film does the right things, usually by omission. Why, then, does it feel slightly wrong?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 16, 2009

Both a subtle commentary on failed political ideals and an amazingly detailed character piece, Che is like no movie you've seen in a long time. It's one of the best of 2008.

| Jan 16, 2009

Director Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour Che is part folly and part fulfillment, a methodical if coolly romantic portrait of the most familiar 1960s T-shirt icon outside the peace symbol.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2009

With Benicio Del Toro delivering a fiercely indrawn and mesmerizing performance in the title role, Che is neither a hagiography nor a superficial character sketch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2009

A richly detailed but emotionally blank account of Guevara's life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2009

Benicio Del Toro, one of the film's producers, gives a heroic performance, not least because it's self-effacing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 15, 2009

For all the movie's narrative momentum, Che retains the air of a study exercise -- of an interest brilliantly explored. How else to explain one's total flatness of feeling at the climax of each movie?

| Jan 12, 2009

It is worth seeing for its attention to visual detail and ambitious filmmaking, but as a psychological portrait of a compelling historical figure, it is oddly bland and unrevealing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 8, 2009