Creation Reviews
7M Pictures
It became tedious when focusing on his [Darwin's] brittle emotions, often in a non-linear and random sort of way.
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| Original Score: 2/5
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
Director Jon Amiel has delivered on the promise of a good script, with a film that has a pleasing sense of forward motion, characters who suffer deeply, but are attractive because of it, morally, for the way they struggle through with love and belief.
Screenwize
Jon Amiel's film about Charles Darwin is a poorly structured and frequently drab affair focused on Darwin's daughter Annie, with occasional bursts of energy thanks to the wildlife cinematography and bouts of Victorian bonhomie.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Herald Sun (Australia)
Best described as Finding Neverland meets A Beautiful Mind, Creation meanders in dramatic urgency at times, but never loses a total connection with its audience.
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| Original Score: 3/5
At the Movies (Australia)
The film indulges in one little bit of overkill towards the end, so unnecessary, but overall Creation is a very fine film indeed.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Autopsy
Creation is an emotionally complex film that examines faith, love, grief and passion through the key events that propelled Darwin to finish one of the most important books ever written.
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| Original Score: 4/5
sbs.com.au
The chief culprits are a laboured, poorly structured script by Aussie John Collee; the hackneyed device of having Darwin interact with the ghost of his dead daughter; and Jon Amiel's heavy-handed direction.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Trespass
With solid performances, this film provides an interesting alternative look at one of the most influential scientists of the modern era.
FILMINK (Australia)
It's an intelligent and emotional film, which (judging by the struggle the filmmakers had of getting an American distributor) proves that Darwin is still making people think, more than 120 years after his death.
Urban Cinefile
For the most part, it's a sombre and gloomy story about a dark period in Charles and Emma Darwin's lives in which the profoundly Christian Emma is in spiritual conflict with her husband over his scientific approach to the origin of species, including man
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Shows that all faith, any faith, is made stronger through questioning and emotional trial.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Disappointingly soapy drama about the domestic life of Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany). Jennifer Connelly plays his wife, Emma. A squandered opportunity.
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| Original Score: 77/100
Common Sense Media
Complex drama gives teens and adults reason to think.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Three Movie Buffs
A bit of a depressing slog, but thanks to the performances of its leads, it does have a satisfying ending.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top CriticSome good acting and fine cinematography are watered down in a tepid yawner that moves with the speed of natural selection, but without its irresistible sense of purpose.
Entertainment Insiders
A gripping personal drama surrounding the 1859 publication of the book which introduced the world-changing theory of evolution.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
An intriguing portrait of a man and a time that changed everything.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Habit
Conventional script makes Darwin come to terms with the loss of his daughter
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| Original Score: 3/4
