Le Divorce Reviews

Not a frothy romantic comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The movie is least successful when it tips from semi-serious to too-serious.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Its annoying need to be witty, profound, funny, and charming at all times makes what could have been a smart comedy a tiresome exercise in pleasing its audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 66/100

At the end when we should be thinking about love and lessons of maturity, we are left with Isabel shrugging off her latest mistake and charging headlong into who-knows-what.

| Original Score: C

Le Divorce is tres mediocre.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's difficult to find a character to connect with.

| Original Score: C+

I saw this AFTER I watched Gigli, and it's STILL the worst film I've seen in the last twelve months.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

...the ending does nothing to dispel the feeling that one has just wasted 117 minutes of one's life on empty gestures.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

[E]ven fans of the filmmakers will be hardpressed to consider this one of their great ones.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

...[T]here is such an availability for space in which to work...dramatic or comedic, that Ivory leaves the living room floor open...without ever actually filling it.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Emerges as one of those concoctions in which the ingredients prove tastier than the finished dish.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

A polished, if inconsequential, piece of film-making, and a welcome antidote to less subtle portrayals of Franco-American relations.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

too many undeveloped plot strands and a dozen too many famous faces, who keep popping up and then disappearing like some kind of star-studded carousel.

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Helmed by a modern auteur and featuring a stellar case, "Le Divorce" could have been a good film... but ironically it fell prey to lack of direction.

Full Review | Original Score: C

While Le Divorce does not attain the excellence of [previous Merchant/Ivory films'] interpersonal relationships, it certainly features an intelligent story complemented by fine work by a dizzying array of gifted actors...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Le Divorce has more subplots than a casino has slot machines. That's the problem. This is not a bad movie; it's an overstuffed movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Sets a gentle and conciliatory mood that takes a lot of the starch out of the love-hate relationship between France and America.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Oh sure, on paper, this all looks glamorous and tempting. But in reality, it is tiring and surprisingly boring.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

A scrumptious little film that has good intentions despite a general lack of direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Francophiles may find the scenery and the culture amusing; most other viewers will just find a more contemporary version of boredom.

| Original Score: 2.5/5