Its main draw is Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche – two performers I never grow tired of watching.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

It is therefore unfortunate that when the film is not immediately dealing with the uplifting qualities of art, it is drowned in clichés

| Feb 26, 2021

Words and Pictures is too timid and half-hearted to even make an entertaining train wreck.

| Jan 8, 2020

Watching Owen and Binoche do this dance leaves one emotionally breathless and wanting more. They are like fire and ice as each brings amazing nuance to their individual and collective performances.

| Dec 14, 2019

While it's not as sharply observed as one wishes it could have been, the film manages to be worthwhile for the excellent Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

Words and Pictures is an ambitious romancer but its missed opportunities leave this charming but trivial tale of artistic rivaling viewpoints not quite making the grade.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 1, 2019

The sparring between these two actors and the maturity of their relationship makes it worth watching despite the inevitability of the story.

| Feb 4, 2018

It is a thoughtful film about redemption and acceptance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2017

With a track record of exceptional films (from Schepisi), Words and Pictures is a disappointment, it is strung together by cliché after cliché with occasional moments of good acting.

| Jun 20, 2017

If you're looking for a date night option, you might find that spending the time in company of Owen and Binoche is good value, but the pictures here tend to overshadow the quality of the words.

| Original Score: C | Jun 6, 2016

It is a joy to see a film that tackles the topic of art and its value in the world, and all the better that actors of Owen's and Binoche's caliber can lead it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2014

The opposites-attract business exchanged by Jack and Dina is so efficiently scheduled throughout the script, you could almost imagine these moments were timetabled by software.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2014

The performances are first-rate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2014

Crowd-pleasing middle-brow romantic comedy about life in an elite New England prep school

| Original Score: B- | Jul 20, 2014

Words & Pictures aims high but falls into too many of the clichés that we've grown to expect from this genre.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 20, 2014

Veteran Aussie director Fred Schepisi slams together a gruff Clive Owen with a frail Juliette Binoche for a romantic comedy that dares to have brains as well as heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2014

It's old-fashioned, but no less stirring for that - especially as Schepisi has spent a lifetime practising what he preaches.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 17, 2014

A tiresome slog.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2014

Binoche's big throaty laugh is heard to appealing effect and Owen's performance has more depth to it than anything I've seen from him before.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 14, 2014

It's difficult to think of a supposed romantic comedy with two less sympathetic protagonists.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2014