Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2001

I prefer to think of this movie as The Critic Who Cried.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 20, 2001

Potter eschews drama for posing, politics for postulating, and provides enough symbolic broad strokes to gag a magic realist.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 16, 2001

It's as though we're being dared not to take the movie seriously, although nothing but the pre-Holocaust setting compels you to do so.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2001

There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse.

| Original Score: C | Jun 28, 2001

It's as dull as dry dirt.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2001

If [Potter] personally, in her 40s, can go to Argentina and become a tango dancer, then we can't complain about anything that happens to Suzie. Not that we'd want to.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2001

A poetic look at transience, betrayal, loss and doom.

Full Review | Jun 21, 2001

The story is pretty cornball, with an ending that can only be called pure Hollywood.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2001

What she lacks as a dramatist, Potter ... compensates for with a painter's eye and a composer's ear.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2001

While we may like what we see, it's impossible to comprehend what much of it means or why we should care.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2001

We're never offended by any of this -- we're never exactly enthralled, either.

| Jun 1, 2001

Has a good story; a lush, tantalizing style and tone; and an excellent cast.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2001

Potter's cinematic vision is what makes The Man Who Cried shimmer and levitate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2001

If this all sounds terribly melodramatic, that's because it is.

Full Review | May 26, 2001

If only all this effort had all been expended on a worthier endeavor.

| May 25, 2001

It's all big moments, the world's longest and most sincere trailer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 25, 2001

Spotted with historical inaccuracies and groaning with dialogue so dreadful that it makes a fine cast look ridiculous again and again.

Full Review | May 25, 2001

Suzie and Cesar are essentially reactive characters, as much victims of underwriting as they are of persecution.

| May 25, 2001

A heartbreaking counterpoint to big war spectacles, beautifully performed by Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp and John Turturro.

Full Review | May 24, 2001