Earth
New Yorker Films | Release Date: September 10, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Even blood, spilled so freely, has a distinctive intensity of red in this beautiful and harrowing film. Read full review
90
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
Both visually and emotionally, a panoramic picture; Mehta wields a master's hand as she weaves together vistas of urban and pastoral India with thoughts on the nature of man as it keeps cycling out in the specifics of history. Read full review
88
Chicago Tribune
An extraordinary movie on many levels. Read full review
88
New York PostJonathan Foreman
A remarkable accomplishment. It takes one of the century's vast tragedies...and makes it heart-rendingly real and intimate.
80
Film.comGemma Files
Mehta's latest release, combines a similarly intoxicating visual immediacy and delight with a sobering outsider's long view. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A powerful and disturbing reminder of how a civilization can suddenly crack under certain pressures. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Told as a melodrama and romance, not docudrama, and that makes it all the more effective. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Hurls its Holocaust at us in a series of justifiably horrific images. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
It's a passionate, beautifully mounted film -- but the agenda she sets for herself is too large and the conflicts she portrays too complicated to be illustrated in a single drama. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Telling things through the eyes of a spoiled, precocious, troublemaking 8-year-old narrator is both an overdone device and not a particularly engaging one. Read full review
70
Film.comJohn Hartl
Gorgeous and troubling. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Sumptuous historical melodrama. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
A draggy affair livened occasionally by bursts of color or raw emotion, but just as often convoluted and hackneyed. It's a case of a film taking on, admirably, more than it can chew.
50
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Unfortunately the allegory tends to overpower the characterizations even as it deepens them. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Mehta feels compelled to twist the screw, shamelessly plying her audience with mawkish tropes wearing the garb of "innocence." Read full review
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