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 | Apr 1, 2006

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

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

But it's also a slow-moving muddle, Solomon unable to find a focus to his lead character that's consistently engaging.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 19, 2003

An unrelentingly morose quest for redemption, one that leans too heavily on stock characters and tends to wander in odd directions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2003

This is a lovely film about redemption and guilt.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 16, 2003

The characters in the well-meaning drama resemble symbols rather than people, while the storyline seeks mighty truths that remain evasive.

| Original Score: C+ | May 15, 2003

The characters are well drawn.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2003

A movie that confuses seriousness with weight, significance with silence and import with emptiness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2003

Corny in its use of symbolism and coincidence, marred by the deadpan performance of its hero, it seems more like a parody than a parable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2003

Solomon never turns these themes into an actual story, or at least a story with any cumulative impact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2003

Ponderously paced and weighed down by a well-meant but mostly failed attempt to explore spiritual issues.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | May 8, 2003

There is not a moment of authentic observation in the film; the director has assembled his characters out of stock melodrama.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Ponderous and pretentious.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2003

So solemnly paced and deliberately performed that it seems to solidify before your very eyes.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2003

Beautifully cast and acted, smartly written, done with excruciating care and glowing Roger Deakins cinematography, it's a film that, in some ways, suffers from its own seriousness, the very passion and guts that make it special.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 24, 2003