Levity Reviews
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