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

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

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

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

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

| Mar 2, 2004

With all the legs flailing, earnest speechifying, hot-headed outbursts, and mild abuse of crockery, Robert Benton's adaptation feels more like a fat Greek wedding than an Ancient Greek tragedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 23, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2003

But the movie's most blatant flaw is the unfortunately miscasting of central players Hopkins and Kidman.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2003

One of those films that makes you say, 'That was powerful. Now what the hell was it about?'

| Nov 3, 2003

... solid but not great.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2003

It is hard to buy what The Human Stain is peddling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 1, 2003

The Human Stain takes a complex work of literary art and reduces it to tasteful melodrama.

| Nov 1, 2003

Works wonderfully as an actor's movie. The trouble is, that's the only way it works.

Full Review | Oct 31, 2003

The problem is that neither Kidman nor Hopkins seems to know what movie they are in.

Full Review | Oct 31, 2003

The stain of seriousness spreads over everything in this movie, eventually blocking out everything but the effort.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2003

There are moments ... that find both truth and lyricism, touching on what it means to be alive, and on what we owe to the ghosts of the past.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2003

Falls victim to a fatal lack of narrative drive, suspense and drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2003

When Kidman's on screen, the film catches fire. Otherwise, it remains unignited.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2003

A compelling, sexy and often moving film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 31, 2003

Nicole Kidman as a milkmaid leading a hardscrabble existence? If you say so.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2003