A film about these shards of life experience and our often desperate attempts to collect them, assemble them, make sense of them or simply live with them without disruption.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

Bee Season is an intelligent, mesmerizing, thought-provoking work, so extraordinary in its content and presentation it is hard to believe it ever got made.

| May 9, 2020

| Original Score: A- | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2006

Words and letters may hold all the secrets of the universe, but 104 minutes wasn't enough to hold and resolve all the secrets and mysteries of Bee Season.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2006

Those seeking transcendence here will surely be disappointed.

| Jul 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Perhaps the film's disparate subplots are given due attention in the book, but it all feels unfocused and jammed together here.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2006

A well-told, enjoyable and insightful film, but its not necessarily as revelatory as its makers seem to think.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2006

Os dez minutos finais de projeo parecem pertencer a um outro filme. Bem ruim, por sinal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2005

Something like a dream Madonna might've had while she nodded off during Spellbound...

Full Review | Dec 8, 2005

We're knee-deep in tastefully presented balderdash.

| Dec 6, 2005

A visual feast, but a spiritual famine.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2005

This is second-rate Hallstrm, drama plus whimsy that, when rubbed together, creates not friction and fire, but a nubbing-down of both elements.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

No, Bee Season is just plain awful. That's right, awful, A-W-F-U-L, awful, and if that doesn't spell out my feelings succinctly I don't know what will.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 6, 2005

...sneaks up on you starting as a family drama and tells that story in the guise of a religious thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2005

This aloof, often cold drama may be too cerebral for its own good, as it fails to explain some of its more mystical elements.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The premise is intriguing, but the oddly toned screenplay is a mostly opaque and convoluted string of dramatically convenient yet inconsistent assumptions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2005