Albert Nobbs Reviews

Thee finished work appears fatally stranded between feminist polemic and accidental magic realism.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

With the exception of a couple of awkward laughs, Garcia's film comes and goes with leaving a single discernible impression.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Close never provides an entry point into the soul of this complex (and otherwise nameless) person, making it harder and harder to view the character as sympathetic.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Sadly, great performances do not a great film make.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Albert Nobbs isn't exactly offensive or discriminatory; it just dances around all the interesting sexual politics at its core and is content to be a totally by-the-numbers period piece. A singular movie, this ain't.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

At once stilted and melodramatic, this is a desperately ill-conceived adaptation of a fascinating story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Albert Nobbs is more a parable than a person, and Albert Nobbs plays out more closely to a fable than an authentic tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Albert Nobbs ends up being little more than a play on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The upstairs/downstairs drama is mediocre (although enlivened whenever Brendan Gleeson shows up as a randy doctor), and the unconvincing premise only drags it down further.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Awful, but memorable.

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Nobbs is so closed-off, so understated, that we're never given a chance to empathize with or understand him ... The movie is as unrealized and unexpressed as its protagonist.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

All of the red meat is just beneath the surface, occasionally poking through but mostly remaining buried.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The film was adapted from a short story, and perhaps a short story it should have stayed.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The creamy, handsome look of "Albert Nobbs" matches Close's work, but the film falls short in most other aspects.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

For all its gender-bending intrigue, this is a cataclysmically sexless film: seldom has drag felt like such a drag.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Nobbs is such a spectral presence that infusing any measure of life into this person is an insurmountable challenge.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Although it strives for bigger things, Albert Nobbs proves itself to be a diluted and bland exploration into transgender survival in conservative Ireland, headlined by Glenn Close's vain gender bending performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

There is such an interesting subject but the creation of this character, played by Glenn Close, it's almost like she is mentally challenged.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The grim, grey-hued result is about as far from contemporary drag chic as it's possible to get - appropriate for the subject matter, perhaps, but hardly the stuff of satisfying cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The rest of the movie, sadly, can't live up to its leads.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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