Shrewd and astute, this is a film with a power that sneaks up on you and lingers long after it's over in a way you can't easily shake.

| Dec 31, 2004

introspectively good

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 27, 2004

Tropical tripe.

| Nov 13, 2004

The pace is stultifying, and even though the ensemble looks realistically stinky and sweaty, the stately progression of events mirrors far too well the torpor of the tropics.

| Jul 30, 2004

An irritating bit of jungle gothic gone bad.

| Jul 10, 2004

Levring and an excellent cast are lost in the shadow of Conrad and other masters, and their sex-money theme requires a genius of hopelessness like Erich von Stroheim.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 9, 2004

Too dank and familiar an expedition.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 9, 2004

A story bent on melodrama and borderline sadism.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 2, 2004

It's a moderately creepy, man-beyond- civilization exercise that can't decide whether it's arty or scary, and thus ends up being neither.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 2, 2004

We begin hoping the ghost of Tennessee Williams will jump out of the bush and inform these characters that it takes more than wounded people with dark secrets, annoying insects and dripping moisture to make something of a tale like this.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 2, 2004

Few actresses can deliver intensity like McTeer, and it's that distinctive, all-purpose stare coupled with her sheer physicality that once again dominates the story.

| Jun 29, 2004

Although phenomenally well-acted, the film's leisurely pace ultimately makes it feel as oppressive as the tropical heat and humidity that gradually turn the characters into slow-moving heaps of damp, dirty rags.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2004

A stunning achievement, an emotionally charged period drama that unfolds with the tragic inevitability of a Joseph Conrad novella.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 25, 2004

Well-intended, but it is also the dreariest, most uninvolving movie I've seen this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 25, 2004

Aided by a terrific cast, this flick effectively conveys a gloomy, claustrophobic sense of doom.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 25, 2004

If Wolfgang Peterson had any guts, she would have been offered Helen of Troy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 25, 2004

The misguided, delirious result offers the perverse guilty pleasure of watching a roster of distinguished actors earnestly swimming against a tidal wave of silliness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2004

Not even Janet McTeer, one of the world's most resourceful actresses, can rescue this movie from deteriorating into a clanking melodrama.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 24, 2004

Lays out many of the elements of a classic gothic thriller, but those elements never entirely coalesce into something that tells you why they bothered.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2004

Imagine a sexually charged Heart of Darkness by way of Denmark's bare-bones Dogme 95 and you'll have an idea of what this dark, moody melodrama is like.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2004