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: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Too bad, really, because as changes of pace go this one should have been magnificent.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 13, 2006

Russell Crowe has many talents, but a gift for light comedy is not one of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 13, 2006

There are some pretty funny things in there.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2006

Crowe, a superb dramatic actor, is congenitally incapable of humour, especially when he tries slapstick.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 10, 2006

On a rainy day, A Good Year may be welcome fantasy; the question is whether anyone will remember it after the clouds have parted.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 10, 2006

Despite some stunning visuals and a lot of nice moments, the finished product feels like the work of an actor and director who are out of their element.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 10, 2006

The overall effect is one of a sumptuously laid table where the main course is overcooked.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 10, 2006

A Good Year, an innocuous, feel-good movie that reunites Russell Crowe with the director Ridley Scott, is a three-P movie: pleasant, pretty and predictable. One might add piddling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 10, 2006

A Good Year may not be vintage stuff, but it goes down fairly smoothly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 10, 2006

Like a fragile Provence wine left too long in the sun, Ridley Scott's romantic comedy A Good Year spoiled somewhere between the publication of Peter Mayle's novel and this cockamamie adaptation.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2006

A Good Year builds so much fairy-tale contrivance with such boisterous high spirits that it's exhausting to keep feeling good about feeling good.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2006

A Good Year is a chance for Crowe and his Gladiator director Ridley Scott to slow down and appreciate the good things, like beautiful women, good wine and a country home in France.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2006

Full of pretentious grape-droppings on how wine is like life, only tastier and with a bolder finish, A Good Year is at best elusive to the palate. At worst, it's a bad pressing of a vintage that has no reisling to exist.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 10, 2006

A pleasant jaunt through one of the most beautiful places on the planet -- encased in a story that ends up making you feel that all is right with the world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2006

A shamelessly enjoyable retread, an ode to la belle vie that has been well turned on a factory spindle.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2006

A Good Year feels as if it takes a year to watch, and not a very good year at that.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2006