Solomon & Gaenor
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: August 25, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A "Romeo and Juliet" tragedy of surprising power. Read full review
80
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Its pleasures aren't so much in the inevitable plot complications, but in the passion of the performances and the spare beauty of the elegant framing and photography. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
With Solomon & Gaenor, it is hard to overlook the folly of the characters. Does it count as a tragedy when the characters get more or less what they were asking for? Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Nicely filmed and acted. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Told so simply and powerfully that it seems to carry echoes of earlier, timeless tales. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
A graceful, understated sense of period allows the behavior of the characters in this love story to be unusually nuanced, making their experiences seem uncontrived as well as archetypal. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Does an almost dismayingly good job of conveying its characters' grim, bare-bones existence and the stultifying sexual and religious taboos that the lovers flout. Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It doesn't lack for emotional intensity or persuasive, three-dimensional characters. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeJay Carr
It takes us nowhere we haven't been before, except geographically. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldCurtis Morgan
Bogs down in a deep muck of inevitability. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneJohn Petrakis
Has a melodramatic glow. Read full review
63
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
The film is in the key of "Romeo and Juliet," and it's a one-note tune. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The performances are uniformly excellent. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Well-meaning portrait of intolerance concludes as grand tragic melodrama, executed with a stately beauty in somber colors. Read full review
56
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
Feels repetitive and impacted. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
The landscape and the lovers are pretty to look at, but two households divided should really pack more of a punch. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
First-time writer-director Paul Morrison has a gift for evoking a time and place. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
Although Morrison's drama feels increasingly forced and manipulative as the movie rolls along, the movie is competent if painfully predictable. Read full review
50
Film.comJared Rapfogel
There's nothing terribly wrong with the movie, but nothing terribly right about it either. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Tepid tale of star-crossed lovers in 1910 Wales. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
By the time the heavy-handed Solomon & Gaenor is over, it has become such a punishing exercise in the self-evident that one is left numb and eager for escape. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Paul Morrison's relentlessly unsurprising staging of a "Romeo and Juliet" story fetishizes its accelerating tragedies with morbid solemnity. Read full review
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