Greenaway remains one of cinema's most innovative and witty visual compositionists, and the film's appealingly breezy tone makes this his least pretentious work in years.

| May 25, 2022

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2005

The headscratching weirdness doesn't gel into a discernible emotional point.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2005

Greenaway is always worth a look, but this one is more disorganized and half-baked than most of his work.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2004

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2003

More than a couple taboos are broken in 8 1/2 Women and as many more are at least badly battered.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

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

Greenaway probes his idiosyncratic ideas about male fantasies, father and son relationships, chance, money,and revenge.

| Mar 13, 2002

| Sep 18, 2001

Though the film has little more to offer than sex, little of it is actually shown, but there is a great deal of nudity. And, at times the shear oddity of it all is amusing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 16, 2001

Demands an awful lot of fortitude on the way to a relatively strong and even touching final reel.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 31, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

One possible approach to 8 1/2 Women, I think, is to view it as a slowed-down, mannered, tongue-in-cheek silent comedy, skewed by Greenaway's anger and desire to manipulate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000