| 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

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

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

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

Better to seek out these artists' works firsthand than to settle for this tame rehash, pretty as it may be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2009

An exceedingly silly historical fantasy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 8, 2009

Little Ashes is a case of too little of this and too much of that, and like the rumored affair, nothing of substance to hold on to.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 8, 2009

For much of its running time, Little Ashes wavers between the polite, stuffy style of a Masterpiece Theater production and the more pointed agenda of gay indie cinema.

| May 8, 2009

Director Paul Morrison nicely re-creates the period, but puts too much weight on the sexual relationship as determining the men's artistic courses.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 8, 2009

The tangled three-way friendship of Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca could make for a fascinating movie. Instead, we have Little Ashes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 8, 2009

In the end, it doesn't satisfy as fact-based bio or love story, but we appreciate the effort.

| Original Score: 2/6 | May 8, 2009

The presence of Robert Twilight Pattinson in the cast of Little Ashes might generate more interest in this insubstantial drama than its meagre merits warrant.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 8, 2009

It's quite an achievement to make a discreet, diffident film about the rumoured love affair between tyro artists Salvador Dal and Federico Garca Lorca - but I'll be damned if Little Ashes doesn't manage it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 8, 2009

Director Paul Morrison doesn't do a terrible job on the budget, but it's all a good deal too amateur-Brideshead to be believed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 8, 2009

Wretched and devastating rather than titillating, the pivotal homosexual love affair is beautifully and sensitively handled, resulting in an intense character piece throbbing with innovation and sexual repression.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2009