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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 18, 2006

... willfully odd movie ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2006

A wet teabag of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 16, 2006

With its jellyfish direction, A Good Woman throws its actors overboard to see if they can swim.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 11, 2006

A Good Woman suffers from a staggeringly bad miscasting of its central role and from a cut-and-paste screenplay that substitutes random insertions of Wilde epigrams for character.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 3, 2006

Something is wrong with A Good Woman: The lightning never strikes. It's never quite alive.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 3, 2006

A Good Woman is such a dreary affair that it makes you wonder whether the last Wilde adaptation -- the critically lambasted The Importance of Being Earnest with Reese Witherspoon -- was really that bad after all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 3, 2006

Besides the consuming, universal glibness of its characters, A Good Woman is also undermined by some ditsy casting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 3, 2006

A Good Woman won't ruin anyone's day, but it won't make anyone's either, and it won't get the great Irish playwright anything like the admiration his work deserves.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2006

For those in the mood for love, A Good Woman is more than good. It's one of the best films of the new year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2006

Rarely have so many regularly employed professionals created something so utterly undistinguished as A Good Woman.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 3, 2006

For the eyes, it's a cinematic banquet filled with the colors, wardrobe and scenery of 1930s Italy. For the mind, it's a sleek, intelligent story about love and money.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 3, 2006

A Good Woman above all lacks the joyful, lucid anger that lights up Wilde's plays -- the sense that beneath the witticisms he's telling it like it is to people who aren't used to hearing it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 3, 2006

The source material and supporting actors make A Good Woman a fairly good movie. But the performances by Helen Hunt as an aging seductress and Scarlett Johansson as a young bride are closer to mediocre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 2, 2006

All the fun in A Good Woman occurs off in the corners, while the action in center-frame does little to capture your fancy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2006

A clever rearranging of Oscar Wilde's first great play, Lady Windermere's Fan.

| Feb 2, 2006

[Tom] Wilkinson artfully deepens a character who in Wilde's original play was rather boobish. It's a marvelous performance in a pretty good film.

| Original Score: B | Feb 2, 2006

A Good Woman has the will to adapt Wilde to a fresh milieu, but not the way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2006

This misbegotten adaptation of Oscar Wildes 1892 comedy Lady Windermeres Fan lacks Wilde's high-toned repartee.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2006