Despite it's shortcomings and mis-castings, it still makes a powerful statement about our times.

| Nov 13, 2019

The Human Stain bears all the scars and stretch marks of a work that has tried to condense the necessarily literary elements of an esteemed novel into a feature film format.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2018

An honourable enough failure, but a failure nonetheless.

| Jan 10, 2018

It is a decent, intelligent film that yet somehow fails to excite.

| Jan 10, 2018

So finely tooled that it feels like it ought to be bound in Morocco leather and placed on a display case in a department store for a last minute Christmas gift.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 18, 2013

Flawed adaptation of Roth's novel isn't for kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Casting a stain.

| Original Score: D | Sep 18, 2007

Both Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins are vastly miscast in Robert Benton's poor adaptation of Philip Roth's poignant novel, one of the few works about contempo academic battlefields.

| Original Score: C | Aug 2, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The acting is phenomenal (especially Harris), and the film will be a nice challenge for those in search of one.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 20, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 5, 2005

One of the most underrated pictures of 2003.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 17, 2004

The film's frame groans in its attempt to contain such a complex story, and its actors ask us to accept implausible things... but it's ultimately rewarding.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 6, 2004

A tricky adaptation of an unlikely novel that nevertheless goes almost as wrong as possible...prey to the most amateur varieties of structural and tonal errors.

| Original Score: F | Aug 28, 2004

...a potboiler disguised as a work of art.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 11, 2004

In an obvious stretch, Kidman's acting calls attention to itself, especially with her broad gestures.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2004

It is a well-dressed, good-looking wax dummy of a film.

| Mar 2, 2004

a well-acted misfire...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 28, 2004