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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: When it finally stops being exasperating, Charlotte settles into a genuinely moving tale. Read more
Jay Carr, Boston Globe: It's that most unfortunate of commodities, a thing of muffled usualness, virtually generic. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: If this is melodrama, it's melodrama of a superior rank, and I salute it. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Mostly a sparkless film: a would-be thinking-person's tearjerker whose cliche plot lines and ice-cold sentimentality sabotage its best intentions. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Blanchett and Crudup are on the verge of stardom, but they're toppled here by a familiar and tepid story. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Despite Cate Blanchett's strong performance in the title role, the World War II spy film is lacking the requisite thrills. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Gives us a woman's view of World War II: There's a taut sense of danger here, and a different kind of valor at work. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Mounts a romantic drama of the World War II era in mostly glossy, shallow terms. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Rather good at its best and never truly bad at its worst, Charlotte Gray occupies a gray zone. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: The movie works so diligently to convey a spirit of heroic uplift and fails so completely that it feels like a tragic misfire. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: The pace is so lethargic and the focus so diffuse that it's hard to get a fix on Charlotte beyond needless glamorization. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: Blanchett is an extraordinary actress, and she does what she can to flesh out the material. But Charlotte is one of the least active underground operatives in movie history. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: While Blanchett's presence is surely felt in virtually every scene of the movie, her acting isn't. We don't connect with her at all. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: This is a frustratingly inert story. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The movie's problem is that the screenplay (by Jeremy Brock) accentuates the book's weaknesses while skirting its strengths -- much of the detail is gone, but the melodrama is more florid than ever. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: This is what they used to call a real 'movie movie.' Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: While Charlotte Gray is too well-made to be considered sub-par, it is not stimulating enough to be regarded as much better than mediocre. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a movie that looks great, is well-acted, and tells a story that you can't believe for a moment. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Charlotte is another fine portrait for Blanchett's growing gallery. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Have that bottom-scraping feeling of being the final story to be told about the great conflict. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: A sweeping World War II drama that displays so much promise with its beautiful cinematography and superb portrayal by Cate Blanchett that you scarcely notice (or even care) that the story is a bit thin. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Brock's script deepens the purples of Faulks's prose while airbrushing out the grays. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Blanchett, who gets better with every performance, takes hold of this movie with a firm but subtle hand. Read more