Hemingway and Gellhorn
HBO | Release Date: May 28, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
7
Negative:
5

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
People WeeklyTom GliattoMay 25, 2012
Season 1 Review: Clive Owen teams with Nicole Kidman for a long, lopsided slog through the life of Ernest Hemingway and war journalist Martha Gellhorn. [4 Jun 2012, p.42]
30
The New York TimesMike HaleMay 29, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a disheartening misfire: a big, bland historical melodrama built on platitudes about honor and the writing life that crams in actual figures and incidents but does little to illuminate them, or to make us care about the romance at its center. Read full review
25
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardMay 29, 2012
Season 1 Review: Director Philip Kaufman's clumsy, bloated project--clocking in at a miserable two hours and 40 minutes--stars Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in potentially career-mangling performances. Read full review
10
SalonWilla PaskinMay 25, 2012
Season 1 Review: A disastrous two-and-a-half-hour Cliffs Notes on the passionate, dysfunctional love affair between Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and his third wife, the war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman). Read full review
0
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanMay 25, 2012
Season 1 Review: Not only is Hemingway and Gellhorn wretched, it is bathed in pretentiousness and pseudo-intellectual delusions of grandeur. It's not just crap, it's expensive, painfully "artistic" crap starring a lot of actors who should have known better once they took a look at the script, which is hilariously awful. Read full review
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