...a sexual awakening of sorts for both of its characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 22, 2012

All sorts of questions go unanswered, and there's little of the density found in Campion's early work; this is mainly smoke, not fire.

| Apr 27, 2012

A profoundly generous treatise on how men and women misunderstand and torment one another.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 27, 2009

Original in every sense, this often difficult film about family, relationships, sexual politics, spiritual questing, faith and obsession further explores the director's abiding fascinations in excitingly unconventional terms.

| Jun 17, 2008

Jane Campion is busily dismantling gender myths that few people take seriously any more.

| Original Score: C | Sep 17, 2007

Ms. Winslet is, by contrast, champagne and caviar for moviegoing grown-ups with good taste.

| Apr 27, 2007

It's brave, adventurous, refreshingly frank -- qualities also marking the performances, particularly those of the leads.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's too bad that such an artist of such obvious ambition and power seems inclined to dismiss the greater part of humanity...

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2003

Behind the philosophical smoke burns a genuine comedic fire.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2002

Filmmaker Jane Campion has displayed genius, passion, insight, and self-indulgence in her work. Now, she reveals a sense of humor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

[A] blithering mess of a story.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 15, 2002

At once hilarious and serious, cruel and tender, and bristling with vitality, Holy Smoke is the right movie for the millennium, envisioning new possibilities in the way people view and relate to one another.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Nice try, but there's not a laugh in sight.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2002

A funny, insightful film whose feminist undertones don't overwhelm the story and characters.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 3, 2002

Not to beat a metaphor to death, but since hitting a high note with The Piano, Jane Campion's career has gone off-key.

| Mar 24, 2002

The film's only moments of electricity come in its first ten minutes, as its two stars are introduced to strains of Neil Diamond's "Holly Holy" and "I Am, I Said."

| Original Score: short | Mar 8, 2002

A shattering and intense drama dealing with spirituality and sexual politics.

| Mar 4, 2002