wish I could find some enthusiasm for this film, which was given a wonderfully austere look by the cinematographer Roger Deakins... For all its seriousness, though, Levity struck me as pretentious and intractably lifeless.

| Apr 4, 2018

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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

Little touch of style is enough to compensate for the lack of substance in Levity.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 18, 2005

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 5, 2005

... a bit heavy on talk and light on action, the film grapples with tough issues at the soul-level, instead of selling us feel-good lies or cynicism.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 6, 2004

Worth seeing for the visuals and the performances, but as drama it's maddening.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2004

"Levity's complications, however, do not stick in your throat - they slumber in your stomach"

Full Review | Original Score: 1 | Aug 31, 2004

Why do filmmakers continue to let Billy Bob Thornton sleepwalk through their productions?

| Apr 30, 2004

This meandering movie rises and falls depending on each individual storyline.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 5, 2003

This is one of those films that seems to mistake lack of dialogue for meaningful silence and has every line delivered as if it were the most important thing ever said.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 6, 2003

The whole thing could use some air, a bit of light and a little levity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2003

Smart cinema for folks who like to think for themselves rather than be spoon-fed by over-eager filmmakers.

Full Review | Original Score: 77/100 | Aug 12, 2003

Levity surely was made by people who wear lots of black, drink way too much expensive coffee and spend endless hours debating What It All Means.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 2, 2003

Suffocates under its own good intentions and inexorable sense of doom.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 16, 2003

In the end the film is undone by an overload of cliches, and by a gravity that never lets up.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2003

It's probably impossible for a movie featuring Thornton, Freeman, Dunst and Hunter to be bad or uninteresting, and Levity is neither.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2003

Like pretty much everything else in Levity, [Thornton's] an earnest, faultlessly compassionate bore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2003

Slow and satisfying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2003