Onegin 1999

Critics score:
48 / 100

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Stephen Holden, New York Times: Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Onegin is as pretty a picture as anyone could want of a Russian lit-flick ... Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There is a cool, mannered elegance to the picture that I like, but it's dead at its center. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The film's only real flaw -- alas, a substantial one -- is that its pace is too deliberate and gets more deliberate as it goes along. Read more

Time Out: Even if grand pathos isn't achieved, Martha Fiennes makes a brave and welcome stab at it. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: The heart of Pushkin's celebrated classic pumps firm and full in debuting director Martha Fiennes' richly textured pic version. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Unable to capture either its wit, psychological acuity, or formal rigor, the movie essentially reduces the schematic, seesaw narrative to doomy cliches. Read more