Goya's Ghosts
Samuel Goldwyn Company, The | Release Date: July 20, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
13
Negative:
3
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75
PremiereGlenn Kenny
Ghosts is one of Forman's most ambitious and daring films; would that all of its ambitions were fulfilled. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Goya's Ghosts is like the sketchbook Goya might have made with a camera. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
An oddly structured tale about Francisco Goya and the Spain that he lived and worked in. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
There is so little emotionally or intellectually at stake in most popular entertainment that Goya's Ghosts, Milos Forman's challenging, compelling and wildly uneven film, shoots like a cannonball into the solar plexus. I can't remember when I've been so physically and mentally shattered. Read full review
70
VarietyJonathan Holland
Ambitious script is stranded between entertainment and intellectualism, leaving us with a magnificent folly, thoroughly watchable for its visuals but ultimately hollow. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Far from an embarrassment and a generally fine piece of work. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Though not nearly as perfect as Amadeus and The People vs. Larry Flynt (to cite two of Forman's previous semibiographical efforts), Goya's Ghosts uses the lives of artists and historical figures to show us the best and the worst of our human impulses. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Although the period feeling is convincing, Forman doesn't seem to know exactly what he wants to say about this intensely complex era - and that leaves his cast floundering. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldMarta Barber
Captures the essence of the period -- an intriguing, backward era in Spain -- but without the emotional impact that such a film requires. Read full review
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