Silk
Picturehouse Entertainment | Release Date: September 14, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
10
Negative:
4
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75
New York PostKyle Smith
As sensuous as its title, Silk is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Sensual but profoundly silly, Silk is ultimately little more than softcore porn with arthouse trappings, a moony, dopily romantic "Red Shoe Diaries" variation for the NPR set. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
Failing to make a lick of rational sense, Silk grasps at poetic straws. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Though the film aspires to the epic with pretensions of deeper philosophical meaning, it ultimately settles for being the "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" of historical romances. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Cinematographer Alain Dostie's stunning, painterly cinematography is the best -- and perhaps only -- reason to endure this stunted epic. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Everything is brought together at the end in a flash of revelation that is spectacularly underwhelming. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleJoshua Kosman
Beautiful but flimsy film. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJoshua Katzman
A visually arresting period piece. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
Though elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Mr. Pitt is a reasonably photogenic specimen. But this actor, whose typical screen character is a broken, androgynous man-child, is disastrously miscast. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
By the end of Francois Gerard's plodding, uninvolving melodrama, his boredom will have nothing on yours. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
By any standards, Silk is a bad movie: pretentious, stillborn, devoid of emotion. Read full review
20
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Silk is a snooze. Vacuous, arid and terminally dull, this adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's freak bestseller hasn't a trace of real life or energy to it, and is hamstrung by a lethargic lead performance by Michael Pitt. Read full review
10
Village VoiceJulia Wallace
Silk isn’t just bad. It’s utterly mad. It stutters and hiccups from scene to scene, from country to country, but never once does it make narrative or emotional sense. Read full review
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