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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80TV Guide MagazineFrank LoveceTV Guide MagazineFrank LoveceThe able cast brings these emotionally complex characters to life, while making Shawn Slovo's occasionally lyrical dialogue sound perfectly natural.
- 75USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkThe result is far from perfect, but to its many merits, add timing. You never get a movie with this kind of story in mid-August.
- 67Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldUltimately, it's a surprisingly empty experience.
- 63New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardGrand passion, secrecy, world politics and mortal danger provide a heady mix for this spectacularly beautiful movie. If only the accents were as reliable as the azure of the sea.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamSan Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamHandsomely weathered John Hurt, as Pelagia's father, gives a performance of such unhackneyed dignity that it provides a moral compass for the action and helps to keep the ricocheting emotional content of the film in balance.
- 50Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorStrives for comprehensive coverage of its theme of forbidden love.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIn this film there is a scene where something is said in English pronounced with one accent, and a character asks, ''What did he say?'' and he is told -- in English pronounced with another accent.
- 30NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenEvery role is miscast. Whose idea was it to have the boyishly British Bale play an illiterate Greek peasant, or the elegant Hurt a gruff-voiced country doctor? Cruz’s run of bad luck in American movies continues.
- 20Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanThe real problem is not the maudlin script or Madden's travelogue touch. It's Cage as Corelli, a miscasting that turns the normally volatile, edgy performer into little more than a spokesman for the Olive Garden.
- 10SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinProbably the most horrifying stuff I've seen all week.