| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2005

In capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating, genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills, the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st.

| Feb 24, 2003

One of the film's most effective aspects is its Tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret.

| Dec 3, 2002

Chekhov has never looked or sounded better.

| Oct 21, 2002

While Cacoyannis' film may not be totally faithful to the master's pen, for literature students and theater lovers, this Cherry Orchard is a rare treat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 13, 2002

The new film of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic.'

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 11, 2002

Ms. Rampling, still beautiful well into her 50s, has an earth-bound weariness and lively spirit that convey a life fully and tragically lived.

| Original Score: B | Jun 20, 2002

Cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 31, 2002

A sometimes tedious film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 24, 2002

Cacoyannis' vision is far less mature, interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 9, 2002

Drags along in a dazed and enervated, drenched-in-the- past numbness.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 26, 2002

Scrupulously acted (in English), visually perfected and skillfully complemented with Tchaikovsky piano music.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

It's not a bit stagy, yet it manages to be dazzling theater.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 11, 2002

Looking aristocratic, luminous yet careworn in Jane Hamilton's exemplary costumes, Rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2002

Any Chekhov is better than no Chekhov, but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2002

Those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2002

... a confusing drudgery.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2002

This story tutors us in the practices of kindness and compassion for those caught up in the trauma of change and loss.

| Feb 24, 2002

... wise and elegiac ...

| Feb 24, 2002