Matthew McNulty is commanding as Bunuel, but the sensitive Javier Beltran consistently steals the show as the tormented Lorca.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 7, 2018

| Original Score: D | May 6, 2011

It feels as though Morrison and Goslett are trying too hard to emulate the work of their subjects.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2010

The drawcard of Robert ''Twilight'' Pattinson as Dali is a mixed blessing for the filmmakers, given how ill-at-ease he is in the role. Javier Beltran, as Garcia Lorca, cast as the heroic centre of the film, cuts a more confident figure.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2010

A snapshot of an insight into the life of Salvador Dali, one of the most complex artists in history and it intensifies rather than satisfies our curiosity about him

| Mar 18, 2010

limps along about as lifelessly as one of Dali's melting clocks

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 16, 2009

Beltran tries to give this flimsy nonsense some weight, but Brits McNulty and Pattinson's attempts at a Spanish accent are woeful.

| Sep 3, 2009

A Pretentious Mess of a Bio-pic In the Worst Sense of the Phrase.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 10, 2009

The movie commits the error of scanting their cultural importance and fixating on Lorca's semi-requited love for Dali.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 7, 2009

Sexual repression claims yet one more victim.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 7, 2009

A bravely earnest and gauzy bit of biography.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2009

A dry, dull retelling of a typical gay coming-of-age tale that's invigorated by neither the period backdrop nor the fact that the characters were real people.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 17, 2009

The movie, with its badly painted backdrops, its stiff acting and its complete lack of dramatic momentum, is embarrassing to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 5, 2009

Beltran, for his part, makes a solidly believable Garcia Lorca. The problem is with the man with whom he's obsessed. In Pattinson's performance, we never see what Garcia Lorca sees in Dali.

| May 29, 2009

Little Ashes is stylish enough to beguile and bold enough to provoke, but it's not bright enough to illuminate.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2009

Even cinematographer Adam Suschitzky's richly textured and resonantly toned cityscapes and rural scenes can't make up for a flawed script and weak performances in what might have been a powerful historical drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 22, 2009

While it eventually improves, the first quarter-hour of Paul Morrison's drama about the youthful exploits of Spanish artists Salvador Dali, Frederico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunuel is cringe-worthy.

| May 22, 2009

What's intended to be a daring look at repressed sexuality, three-ways and all, has the dramatic heft of a true-love comic book.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 21, 2009

An intriguing and muddled relationship between three brilliant artists is downgraded into a tedious and lurid art-world soap opera full of convoluted love triangles.

| Original Score: 22/100 | May 21, 2009

A pleasurable, old fashioned gay romance with a good measure of art and politics tossed in between the passion.

| May 15, 2009