Aside from the waste of great talent, the real shame here is that a film that takes the great master's name could at least try to evoke the raw visual power of his paintings.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2018

A ridiculous biopic of the great Spanish artist.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 19, 2014

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Intense historical epic is for adults only.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2010

Cumbersome and often stilted, Goya's Ghosts remains a worthy drama

| Aug 27, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6 | Jan 18, 2008

Goya, aqui, é o coadjuvante de luxo de uma história que não faz jus nem mesmo aos seus protagonistas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2007

A storyline that turns so silly, you half-expect Mel Brooks to show up reprising his "Inquisition" musical number from History of the World Part I.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2007

Goya gets lost as the filmmakers turn Spanish history into a chronicle of easy contemporary targets. They don't just hit the social-political bull's-eye -- they obliterate it with a cannon and inadvertently scorch the dramatic landscape all around it.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2007

Captures the essence of the period -- an intriguing, backward era in Spain -- but without the emotional impact that such a film requires.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Reminds us of the wisdom behind the title of Goya's most famous etching: 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.'

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

A disjointed oddity.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 23, 2007

Goya's Ghosts is less about the eponymous painter than it is a gripping two-part story of politics and faith during and after the Spanish Inquisition.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 23, 2007

Goya's Ghosts is a smart, darkly funny and deeply pessimistic film. It looks good and features wonderful performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 76/100 | Aug 18, 2007

Forman ought to have put his film to The Question a little longer before letting it loose on the world.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 13, 2007

Goya's Ghosts has ambitious goals that it never fully attains. It proves intermittently fascinating but ultimately disappointing.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2007

What Forman doesn't give us is drama of sure coherence or credibility, but the trappings entrance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 10, 2007

Goya's Ghosts uses the lives of artists and historical figures to show us the best and the worst of our human impulses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2007

It's a richly seen and felt movie, but not one with a feel-good message.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2007

A modern sensibility afflicts much of the screenplay, with characters expressing thoughts and opinions for our ears rather than acting as people of that era.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2007