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

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

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

A punishing misfire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 3, 2007

Misery, misery, misery.

| Aug 3, 2007

While there are probably computer-generated backgrounds and armies on screen, the movie still has the feel of an old-fashioned epic.

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

Wrong, wrong, wrong, every step of the way.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2007

If Forman is trying to communicate that art isn't an effective way to change American society, he's proved his point neatly with this muddled, wandering dud.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 20, 2007

It has grand scale and grand ambitions, and in the midst of our annual silly season at the movies I would like to suggest that, flawed as it is, the film does reward our serious attention.

| Jul 20, 2007

Ultimately Goya's Ghosts left me wanting to watch Amadeus again, for the pleasure of a story well told.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 20, 2007

Rich in color and period detail, the film attempts an epic sprawl it never quite achieves, but the movie is always enjoyable and interesting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2007

An across-the-board disaster from one of my favorite directors, Milos Forman.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 20, 2007

Fascinating ideas do hover, like mournful specters, around the edges of this meticulously detailed movie. But then they disappear, leaving us vaguely sad and unsettled, with nothing solid to grasp.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 20, 2007

One of [Forman's] more fanciful [biopics], spinning a historical melodrama around the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya.

| Jul 20, 2007

An extraordinarily beautiful film that plays almost like an excuse to generate its images.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2007

An overstuffed turkey that's entertaining for all the wrong reasons. It may in fact be the comedy of the summer, a melodramatic folly whose ambitions consistently curdle into camp.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 20, 2007

Goya's Ghosts, the new feature from the director Milos Forman, is an unwieldy mix of political satire and lavish period soap opera.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2007

Goya's Ghosts is Milos Forman's first film since 1999, but you sincerely wish it wasn't. A logy, rambling period piece, it feels about as far away from the spirit of Amadeus as it's possible to get with wigs and britches.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 19, 2007