Charlotte Gray Reviews

This is Blanchett's film. Her quiet, detailed work leaves you wanting more.

Not a great work but wields powerful weapons in its director and its star.

This 'woman-in-jeopardy' movie feels more like 'woman-in-apathy'.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Mostly disappointingly and surprisingly flat.

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While "Charlotte Gray" can be an infuriating film at times... it does feature subplots that make it worthwhile.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

The script doesn't give Blanchett nearly enough to do to sustain a rooting interest in her character.

Blanchett, who gets better with every performance, takes hold of this movie with a firm but subtle hand.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Sometimes war is predictable hell.

| Original Score: 2.5/5

Gives us a woman's view of World War II: There's a taut sense of danger here, and a different kind of valor at work.

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Charlotte is another fine portrait for Blanchett's growing gallery.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

There is nothing gray about this heroine.

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Blanchett is an extraordinary actress, and she does what she can to flesh out the material. But Charlotte is one of the least active underground operatives in movie history.

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This is a movie that looks great, is well-acted, and tells a story that you can't believe for a moment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's that most unfortunate of commodities, a thing of muffled usualness, virtually generic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The politics are confused and the atmosphere is a muddy mess, a haphazard mix of continental accents and inconsistent languages...

Full Review | Original Score: C

This is a frustratingly inert story.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Resists depicting WWII in easy blacks and whites, and in doing so, challenges the national ideologies, nostalgia, and idealization that have become so commonplace in popular cultural imaginings of the 'great war.'

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It stretches credulity, strains patience, and eventually, falls flat.

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Goes through the paces of being intense and passionate without actually inspiring any feelings.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

One wishes that the muddled script ... had received the same attention as the costumes and cinematography.

| Original Score: 2/4