[Unfortunately,] Winter's Tale falls very flat, and unless you are watching it for the actors, don't pay money for this movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2021

The film would have been much better off sticking with an eternal love story or having the protagonist fulfill his future destiny that is connected to his past. Winter's Talefeels distant and disconnected. It should have been magical.

| May 30, 2021

A frustrating movie. It overly complicates a boy-from-the-wrong- side-of-the-tracks-meets-rich-girl story with a bunch of hocus pocus that wastes some good work from Farrell, Findlay and Russell Crowe.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Goldsman's writing is not up to par here with dialogue that is clunky, simplistic, and at times downright befuddling.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

It was like a third-grader wrote a book report on the book and then they made a movie out of that book report.

| Apr 27, 2020

I was constantly confused.

| Apr 27, 2020

A tiresome weepy romance, full of over-boiled mystic hokum.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 7, 2019

... the only way to watch Winter's Tale is to accept it as high camp and wait for it to become a cult classic.

| Mar 2, 2019

Winter's Tale feels distant and disconnected. It should have been magical.

| Jan 25, 2019

Winter's Tale is gorgeous and weird and something of a mess. It is original and memorable for both its tableaus and its gonzo storytelling, but it's neither moving nor much fun.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 17, 2019

In this world, some people can be reincarnated and those in heaven have the choice to come back and walk the earth as mortals. Now, I'm not religious, but I did find myself praying for this movie to redeem itself.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 11, 2018

Thus, the emergence of writer-director Akiva Goldman's whimsical romancer Winter's Tale, a bloated and sugary supernatural period piece that hopes emotional audiences will eagerly digest with the enthusiasm of gulping down a box of chocolate candy kisses

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 11, 2018

Fairy tales either elate or depress, for Winter's Tale, it mostly sedates.

| Oct 10, 2018

Winter's Tale is one of the movies where you just forget logic and allow the magic to happen.

| Aug 26, 2018

If you're still determined to see a New York-based film about the romantic powers of the heavens this season, go rent Moonstruck. The writing is better, the story is better and it's only funny when it means to be.

| Nov 21, 2017

While the setting, cinematography, background score, outfits, imagery, everything is ideal for a 'magical love story', the adaptation is way too convoluted and unconvincing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2017

Winter's Tale is handsomely shot, but its jumble of thoughts and ideas just aren't articulated clearly enough to enable us to take the leap of faith into the supernatural world.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 8, 2017

There are so many ideas floating around in Winter's Tale, it feels like Goldsman is simply trying to keep up with his own film.

| Original Score: D | Jun 21, 2016

A total suspension of belief is required because your brain says it's not working while your heart wants to say, "but I want this to work". And yes. I am a sucker for a horse with wings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2016

The only way to even potentially sell any of this was to play it so straight that it hurts a little, and Akiva Goldsman and crew did that, even when it broke the film.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 25, 2014