Don't Move
Northern Arts Entertainment | Release Date: March 11, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Nobody into lush melodramas dripping in sex should miss this pulsating Italian import. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Told in a tricky flashback mode that's vivid even with a few too many temporal kinks, Don't Move is the sort of thing that Claude Chabrol was once praised for making with more pretension and a lot less less juice. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Movies as strong and provocative as this one are a special pleasure.
80
VarietyDeborah Young
In his second outing as a director, top thesp Sergio Castellitto (also playing the surgeon) takes the viewer on an emotion-filled ride and brings a violently masculine perspective to the story. However, it is Penelope Cruz who gives the film's knockout performance. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
has a rich, lyrical sweep and floats between past and present, reality and imagination, with ease. It is a richly satisfying experience. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
A compelling if not altogether convincing tale of mad love and divine redemption, adapted from the prize-winning novel by Castellitto's wife, Margaret Mazzantini. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
A paranoid male fantasy about cheating, with surface similarities to Hollywood movies like ''Fatal Attraction" and ''Unfaithful." This one's Italian, though, and its attitude toward adultery is more European. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Don't Move comes to seem as static as its title -- we just don't learn enough to compensate for feeling so little. Read full review
63
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Yes, the movie asks hard questions, but it would be better - or at least more honest - if it weren't so insistent that everyone arrive at the same answer. Read full review
60
The New York TimesDana Stevens
It is a beautifully made film - decorously composed, meticulously acted, cleanly photographed. But all of these qualities make it seem complacent and hypocritical when it wants to be honest and brave, and sentimental rather than emotionally daring. Read full review
60
EmpirePatrick Peters
Castellitto deserves great credit for toning down the melodrama in wife Margaret Mazzantini's novel and producing a very human story about chance, choice and consequence. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
There's nothing cute, cloying, or playful about the lovers in Sergio Castellitto's opaque romantic drama Don't Move, but in their way, they're as incomprehensible as the stars of any gimmicky comic love film. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The story wants to be a sort of "Last Tango in Paris" redux, but it falls into mere melodrama after a brilliant beginning. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The script is morose and unfocused - not to mention hard to believe and insulting to women. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
Though sprung from the mind of a woman, the film plays like a hetero male fantasy of tortured love. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Castellitto directed and stars in this unbearable film, a case study of a surgeon with a raging madonna-whore complex. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Cruz's willingness to allow her appearance to be so degraded for cinema's sake doesn't really help. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Cloyingly melodramatic film. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
A syrupy Italian power ballad along the lines of the ones on the movie's soundtrack. Its tune is mawkish, bombastic but, in the end, not especially resonant. Read full review
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