“Dreams” tries too hard to be a serious allegory of the afterlife and falls on its face in the absence of an appropriate or intriguing plot. The visuals, while stunning, take over the film too easily.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 26, 2022

It's a sullen and woefully boring religious sermon...

| May 12, 2013

Worthwhile for thoughtful teens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Aside from having one of the worst titles in recent film memory, "What Dreams May Come" fails by trying to be all things to all people.

| Original Score: D | May 20, 2009

The film lurches ... toward greatness, dazzling the viewer with a spectacular view of heaven that is not only beautiful but also profoundly moving.

| Jul 7, 2008

Has two things going for it--its spectacular, Academy Award-nominated special effects and the fact that it ends. Everything else about this ridiculous, three-hanky film sends it sharply into nightmare.

| Original Score: D | Aug 19, 2007

Visually, it's one of the great movies of its decade; dramatically, it's rather blurry and baffling.

| Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 14, 2005

This is what happens when you try to make a philosophical movie about spirituality without making anybody uncomfortable.

| Original Score: D | Jan 15, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | May 3, 2004

This ambitious afterlife romance introduces provoking themes, but Williams eventually leads the way back to familiar hackneyed ground. The grandiose art direction provides moments of wonder, but the muddled script gives them no raison d'tre.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Aug 11, 2003

It may push just the right buttons for some, but it had the perverse effect of making me want to wear black, read some Sartre and revel in a meaningless and empty universe.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

Keeps poking the viewer with an Emotion stick.

| Mar 4, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The set design, artistic direction, special effects and cinematography of this film are all stunning.

| Original Score: B | Jan 12, 2003

| Original Score: C | Jan 10, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

For all its fabulous imagery and occasional dab-your-eyes moments, What Dreams May Come never rises to the wonderment of its own irresistible conviction -- that love can live beyond the grave.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 15, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2002