Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 86
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 60
Ornate costumes and a talented cast can't make up for Ghosts' glacial pace and confused plot.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 19
Ornate costumes and a talented cast can't make up for Ghosts' glacial pace and confused plot.
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The lives of a great artist, a corrupted holy man, and a beautiful woman cross paths at a crucial moment in history in this epic-scale historical drama from director Milos Forman. Near the end of the 18th century, Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) is a gifted but controversial artist whose provocative and often satirical work has earned the enmity of the Spanish government as well as the Catholic Church, who hold tremendous power as the Inquisition rages. Surprisingly, Brother Lorenzo (Javier
Jul 20, 2007 Wide
Feb 26, 2008
$0.7M
Samuel Goldwyn Films
All Critics (87) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (61) | DVD (3)
Think of it as an Amadeus that doesn't work.
It's a richly seen and felt movie, but not one with a feel-good message.
A modern sensibility afflicts much of the screenplay, with characters expressing thoughts and opinions for our ears rather than acting as people of that era.
A punishing misfire.
Misery, misery, misery.
While there are probably computer-generated backgrounds and armies on screen, the movie still has the feel of an old-fashioned epic.
Intense historical epic is for adults only.
Cumbersome and often stilted, Goya's Ghosts remains a worthy drama
Portman is disappeared, stripped, chained and tortured, raped repeatedly in the Church dungeon and impregnated by the creepy cleric as he forces her to pray nude. Did I mention that the shackled hottie falls in love with him? Move over, Black Snake Moan.
Goya, aqui, é o coadjuvante de luxo de uma história que não faz jus nem mesmo aos seus protagonistas.
A storyline that turns so silly, you half-expect Mel Brooks to show up reprising his "Inquisition" musical number from History of the World Part I.
Goya gets lost as the filmmakers turn Spanish history into a chronicle of easy contemporary targets. They don't just hit the social-political bull's-eye -- they obliterate it with a cannon and inadvertently scorch the dramatic landscape all around it.
Captures the essence of the period -- an intriguing, backward era in Spain -- but without the emotional impact that such a film requires.
Reminds us of the wisdom behind the title of Goya's most famous etching: 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.'
A disjointed oddity.
Goya's Ghosts is less about the eponymous painter than it is a gripping two-part story of politics and faith during and after the Spanish Inquisition.
Goya's Ghosts is a smart, darkly funny and deeply pessimistic film. It looks good and features wonderful performances.
Forman ought to have put his film to The Question a little longer before letting it loose on the world.
Goya's Ghosts has ambitious goals that it never fully attains. It proves intermittently fascinating but ultimately disappointing.
What Forman doesn't give us is drama of sure coherence or credibility, but the trappings entrance.
Goya's Ghosts uses the lives of artists and historical figures to show us the best and the worst of our human impulses.
Film about the life of famed Spanish artist Francisco Goya, Goya's Ghost is a sweeping drama directed by masterful director Milos Forman. I feel that this is a phenomenal period piece. Goya's Ghost has a phenomenal cast and is one impressive historical drama. Not since Forman's film Amadeus has a film of this caliber
August 8, 2011
Super Reviewer
Master Spanish painter Francisco de Goya is confined here to be a mere middle man, a MacGuffin in a tasteless soap opera set in the midst of two centuries.Milos Forman is a good director, but neither he nor his co-writer, the famous Buñuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière could follow a truly significant period of
July 27, 2007Super Reviewer
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