A fine book fights gallantly to escape from its straitjacket, but eventually lies down and allows itself to be trampled underfoot by bad ideas.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2014

Findlay narrates in huge chunks of religiose voice-over. "Nothing has been without purpose - nothing," she concludes. Well, perhaps not nothing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 23, 2014

The introductory voice-over... generously still gives you time to dash back to the foyer and demand your money back to watch something less stomach-churning - like escalators going up and down.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 21, 2014

Unfortunately, the film's magical- realist approach comes off as kitsch and preposterous.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2014

If these actors felt they owed Goldsman a debt, they've paid it in full.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2014

How could this film be made worse? Only by giving Lucifer a scene with Lucifer Jr played by Jaden Smith.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 20, 2014

It is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the worst film Russell Crowe has appeared in. It may even be the worst film Colin Farrell has appeared in, which is really saying something.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 20, 2014

Largely horrible. But we would go back.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2014

Corny and shakily plotted, it's a disappointing directorial debut from Goldsman.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 17, 2014

If you're familiar with the concept of hate-watching or ironically loving a movie, then by all means, enjoy ripping Winter's Tale to shreds with your friends at the bar next door.

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 14, 2014

Though handsomely mounted, the film is basically just too silly to convince on any level.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2014

The film version of "Winter's Tale" probably won't please anyone: neither fans of the book nor those who have never read it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 14, 2014

We never come to understand the magic that keeps Farrell looking like a member of My Chemical Romance for 10 decades. We never know why consumption makes women sexy.

| Feb 14, 2014

If only there was less mush and more meat in this stew.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 14, 2014

Is it a Valentine's Day prank? Gives magic and realism a bad name; doesn't make romance seem so hot either. So dull it feels like a vanity project with a Hollywood budget.

| Feb 14, 2014

Winter's Tale is preposterous twaddle. Use it as a date movie only if you don't love the one you're with.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 14, 2014

It might all make more sense to fans of the book. But you shouldn't have to have read the book to be able to see and enjoy the movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 14, 2014

You have to stretch your imagination just a teensy bit - OK, a whale of a lot - to buy into it.

| Original Score: C | Feb 14, 2014

Winter's Tale is the kind of really bad movie that may still be quite easy to like, or even love, if you abandon all senses ye who enter here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 14, 2014

Not only is the story of magic, angels, demons and predetermined destiny preposterous, but the characters are also unconvincing and the dialogue sanctimonious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 13, 2014