This is simply an overwhelmingly dumb and boring. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 24, 2022

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

The central pair's shattering, once-in-a-lifetime passion cries out for more urgency and emotional power.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2008

Handsomely produced, with a typically mesmerizing performance by Redford, alas this fails to exploit its intriguing political background and ends up being more of a routine and ineffective romance.

| May 26, 2008

Elaborate visual mounting and iconographic placement of the romantic leads are the movie's preoccupation, with the overthrow of Batista merely providing local color.

| May 26, 2008

Unfortunately, against that impressive backdrop, Pollack mounts a film that is lifeless and slow-moving, offering neither a compelling love story nor a tense tale of a city in turmoil.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2008

Director Sydney Pollack and star Robert Redford have lost their normally dependable quality touch as they slog through a notably uncompelling $45 million-plus tale of a gringo caught up in the Cuban revolution.

| May 26, 2008

Another top-notch effort from Pollack.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2008

Mediocre Redford drama set in Cuba of semi-old, directed OK by Pollack.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2008

The whole thing lacks conviction.

| Sep 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 20, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 18, 2005

An old-fashioned and bittersweet tale about romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 23, 2004

It drips with class and craftsmanship, but the magic is not there

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2004

The glittering decadence of this culture on the verge of collapse is in fact the film's most fascinating aspect, and Mr. Pollack has re-created it extravagantly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 26, 2002

Some fundamental things still do apply as time goes go by.

Full Review | May 12, 2001