The result is an insufferable academic cocktail party of declamatory speeches coaxed...

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| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 16, 2007

Many films have already tread through the gloomy garden paths that "The Sisters" takes. But it confirms that watching Maria Bello act in many guises is one of the great pleasures of the movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2006

Just goes to show you that you can be rich, smart, beautiful, and accomplished ... and still be as miserable as us middle-class drones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2006

Intelligent, observant entertainment designed for an adult audience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2006

What we can guess, watching the film, is that the same players would make a good job of Three Sisters but are undermined by the faculty club, which works like a hotel lobby. There's no way to sustain dramatic momentum here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 19, 2006

Instead of anti-melodrama laced with surprising moments of comedy, which Chekhov managed, The Sisters settles for bloodless melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 18, 2006

Anyone looking for the playwright's undeniable insight into the female psyche is unlikely to find any such specimen here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 12, 2006

Overwrought psychodrama revolving around the predictable warps and obsessions of three adult siblings.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2006

It's a tedious experience of otherwise promising material and covetous cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2006

I liked the performances a lot.

Full Review | Apr 17, 2006

Bello is phenomenally good as the embittered Marcia, while Stuart and Christensen do their best with their less complex roles, but they're all undermined by Alfieri's shrill, mannered dialogue and cliched backstories.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

We never tire of watching these actresses (particularly Bello, who's utterly convincingly playing one of those sexy, crazy, intelligent women men go bonkers for). And the movie, though flawed, remains absorbing and, in a ridiculous way, fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

[Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters'] egacy of stifled dreams and inter-familial anxieties are as relevant as ever. Updating it, however, should involve more than adding incest, lesbianism and the uncontrolled venting of spleen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

It's a bit of an oversimplification but still a rule no writer should forget: Insufferable characters make for an insufferable play or movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 14, 2006

A low-profile indie that's worth seeking out for Maria Bello's performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2006

A pretentious, stagy and over-the-top update of Chekov's The Three Sisters.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Richard Alfieri adapted his Chekhov-inspired stage play for this movie, but the outpouring of suppressed memories and emotions still seem to belong to the more personal realm of theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

The movie looks horrible. On the few occasions that the action moves outside the chamber room, it's as if the filmmakers were venturing forth on the planet Mars.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 14, 2006

an aggressively frustrating and ultimately nonsensical waste of time and talent.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 13, 2006