Ridley Scott’s A Good Year is an underappreciated gem that shows us a different side to both the celebrated director and lead star Russell Crowe.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 1, 2024

A Good Year is a light snack of comfort-food cinema and Scott’s only comedy— not that there are a huge amount of laughs.

| Apr 23, 2024

It's a film from which you'd expect the moon, the stars and the sun. What with an actor like Crowe and a director like Scott. Disappointingly, the talented duo gives you the most wishy-washy film of the year.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 23, 2019

It's not so much A Good Year as A Good Yawn (if not A Full-on Nap).

| Aug 22, 2018

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 9, 2011

Predictable but pleasant movie for teens and up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Russell Crowe brings to bear his now-familiar acting tics in a not-so-tender romance by director Ridley Scott.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 24, 2009

[Russel Crowe's] supply of quips and pratfalls is inexhaustible, even when he's trapped at the bottom of a swimming pool surrounded by peat and dry leaves. Alas, he escapes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2008

Under the Tuscan Sun for men

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 22, 2007

Forget that this is a film about a man's epiphany about what's important in life, and enjoy it for its lighthearted moments, slapstick comedy, but most of all its divine locations.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Crowe has located his funnybone again in a conventional but engaging romantic comedy ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 7, 2006

This Gallic tourist-porn feels as stale as yesterday's baguette.

| Dec 1, 2006

'Look Homeward, Gladiator' hints at new dimensions of warmth and heart in Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott. They're not there yet, but they're headed in the right direction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 24, 2006

A Good Year is, structurally, nothing more than a rickety assembly of the creakiest cinematic clichés.

| Nov 20, 2006

Ultimately, though, the odd witty line and scads of eye candy can’t compensate for a lack of dramatic dynamism or a cast that just isn’t very funny.

| Nov 18, 2006

It's so goddamned cute you almost want to puke, but you don't. This is the most charming movie of the year, and it comes within an inch of being too sweet to stand, but it doesn't get there.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2006

Does not translate into a good film.

| Original Score: C | Nov 16, 2006

The course A Good Year takes feels like it's on rails: there's only one possible destination and only one way to get there.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 15, 2006

Scott's film is like a reproduction of things he's seen in romantic comedies over the years with no idea why they're there.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 15, 2006