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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Yet another Merchant Ivory triumph, with impeccable performances and equally flawless, grand period settings. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Coiled, nuanced, resonant tale. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: A handsome production and a story well told. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: In this movie, all displays of passion feel like gaudy pantomime. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Handsome, faithful, intelligent screen adaptation. Read more
Pam Sitt, Seattle Times: It is beautifully, dramatically and grandly long, tedious, boring and slow. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: May not be the best film to come from the Ismail Merchant/James Ivory team, but it's certainly one of the most beautiful. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: The Golden Bowl is a feast for those who love nuanced conversation, unspoken emotion and guarded looks. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Ivory has been away from period literary adaptations, backbone of the Merchant Ivory reputation, for some time. It's good to have him back, but Golden Bowl shows he needs to do some work to reacquire his golden touch. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A watchable but rather bare-bones entry in the Merchant Ivory canon. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A fairly satisfying flick. Read more
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It kept me at arm's length, but that is where I am supposed to be; the characters are after all at arm's length from each other, and the tragedy of the story is implied but never spoken aloud. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Makes the viewer wish that Ivory had cast a more accomplished actress -- Kate Winslet, perhaps, or Cate Blanchett -- who could give dimension to the character and indicate subtext in a way that Thurman can't. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: The movie establishes good will (or even great will) in the initial scenes because it's so gorgeous, but the rest is such a slog that even the revealed significance of the title artifact elicits a shrug. Read more
Emanuel Levy, Variety: Unfortunately, James' deft portrait of human frailty and his experimentation in narrative mode only intermittently find vivid expression in the work of Ivory and screenwriter Prawer Jhabvala. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Amerigo and Charlotte become mere lusty opportunists, father and daughter become avenging saints. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: It suffers mightily from its deliberate pacing, pale characterizations, obvious plot and some woeful miscasting. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A victim of painfully drawn out excessiveness. Read more