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The Luzhin Defence Reviews
A worthy effort for most of its running time.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 2, 2024
I realize that every film adaptation of a good novel involves some sort of trade-off and that fair exchanges are few and far between. But this movie takes away a good two-thirds...
| Jun 22, 2022
Turturro supplies some good moments, but without a believable emotional core the film falls short
| Original Score: C | Feb 21, 2011
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002
Vale por completo la pena, y, si gustan del juego ciencia, es una cinta obligada.
Full Review | Aug 8, 2002
More lyrical and affecting than the stiffly contrived A Beautiful Mind. Profoundly in touch with the miracle and curse of a fragile, fanatical artistic sensibility.
Full Review | Jan 1, 2002
A dishonest adaptation of an unsentimental book.
Full Review | Oct 12, 2001
| Original Score: 77/100 | Oct 8, 2001
One has to assume that Sony Pictures Classics hopes to attract Nabokov-philes to theaters. And, boy, will they be pissed.
| Sep 4, 2001
Makes up for a creaky structure with the intensity of emotion and psychological nuance provided by two of our finest screen actors.
Full Review | Jun 14, 2001
Further proof that director Marleen Gorris ... can't shape a scene.
| Jun 7, 2001
While [Turturro] certainly nails the bizarre outer manifestations of Luzhin's eccentricity, he never makes us care.
Full Review | May 25, 2001
The chess scenes, especially toward the end, are filmed with an attempted frenzy that borders on laughable.
| Original Score: 2/4 | May 24, 2001
There are very real pleasures to be had.
| May 23, 2001
"A sedate, simplistic, dispiriting film about chess and madness. 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' is better."
| Original Score: 5/10 | May 23, 2001
Capable but not transporting, never unraveling the mystery of its hero's genius or, worse, making us care enough to look deeper.
Full Review | May 21, 2001
Turturro's stormy and quirky performance is the ... highlight of a film that makes all the familiar chess moves.
Full Review | May 21, 2001
It plays a predictable, if pretty, game.
Full Review | May 21, 2001
A predictable, emotionally unengaging, and occasionally corny story.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2001