Brokedown Palace might be the least gritty prison movie ever made, and it makes human tragedy seem like an inconvenience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2023

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 8, 2002

about as thrilling as a long line at customs. The screenplay (is)apparently based on those recorded warnings played in airports... Danes and Beckinsale struggle to bring some conviction to a story sorely in need of it.

| Jun 21, 2002

| Original Score: B | Apr 3, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Offensively stupid.

| Original Score: short | Mar 8, 2002

Explores friendship as a school of virtue where trust and honesty are always tested.

| Feb 28, 2002

...trite, implausible, and annoying.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 7, 2001

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 1, 2000

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

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Perky print ads for this gravely earnest drama suggest a cosmetics campaign and, ironically enough, end up painting a more accurate picture of what the film is really like.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000