A prosaic period piece, high-minded and attractively mounted but muddled and turgid.
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Goya's Ghosts (2007)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:24
Rotten:59
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Ornate costumes and a talented cast can't make up for Ghosts' glacial pace and confused plot.
Theatrical Release:Jul 20, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $743,451
Synopsis: From two-time Academy Award® winning director Milos Forman and three-time Academy Award® winning producer Saul Zaentz, GOYA'S GHOSTS is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of... [More]
Starring: Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgaard, Randy Quaid
Director: Milos Forman
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Reviews for Goya's Ghosts
Wrong, wrong, wrong, every step of the way.
07/23/07
Top CriticIt’s never entirely clear who or what the film is about.
05/04/07
Goya's Ghosts is a smart, darkly funny and deeply pessimistic film. It looks good and features wonderful performances.
08/18/07
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.
08/23/07
It has grand scale and grand ambitions, and in the midst of our annual silly season at the movies I would like to suggest that, flawed as it is, the film does reward our serious attention.
07/20/07
Top CriticSumptuously filmed, but so lacking in a central narrative focal point that for all its pretences, Goya's Ghosts succeeds in saying nothing at all.
05/04/07
Close to a disaster.
05/04/07
Any film that sets its vision of Spain in the era of Inquisition and Napoleon against Goya's needs to have something pretty special to offer; this one doesn't.
05/04/07
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08/04/07
Goya's Ghosts...has no clear purpose, no clear message and no clear central character. Like most costume dramas these days, it dwells on the gore, filth and violence of the past -- but toward what end is never apparent.
07/19/07
Top CriticGoya's Ghosts has ambitious goals that it never fully attains. It proves intermittently fascinating but ultimately disappointing.
08/11/07
[Milos] Forman has long wanted to make a movie about the Spanish Inquisition that reflected his own dire experience under Nazi and Communist regimes. This is it. But in realizing his dream, he seems to have lost track of the film's central subject.
07/26/07
There's an unfortunate tendency in this movie for the forces of history to overtake scenes.
07/19/07
Top CriticA punishing misfire.
08/03/07
Top CriticGoya's Ghosts is Milos Forman's first film since 1999, but you sincerely wish it wasn't. A logy, rambling period piece, it feels about as far away from the spirit of Amadeus as it's possible to get with wigs and britches.
07/19/07
Top CriticNot a perfect film, but its implications have profound resonance.
07/19/07
Top CriticDistinctly Goya in its emphasis on the grotesque, it shows none of the Spaniard's artistic economy.
07/17/07
It's a rare misfire for Forman, and it's a doozy of one.
07/19/07
Feels like an unsatisfying outline for a bigger, better fil
08/02/07
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