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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 AwardŽ winning director Milos Forman and three-time Academy AwardŽ 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
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
Sumptuously 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
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 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
The film's greatest moments of artistry are in the credits, which feature a breathtaking gallery of the painter's work.
08/02/07
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01/18/08
The whole thing creaks along like an anaemic snail.
05/04/07
Fascinating ideas do hover, like mournful specters, around the edges of this meticulously detailed movie. But then they disappear, leaving us vaguely sad and unsettled, with nothing solid to grasp.
07/20/07
The most disappointing film Milos Forman has made in his rich career, this misguided saga fails to illuminate the famous Spanish painter or the infamous Inquisition; among other flaws, it features the first bad performance from the gifted Natalie Portman
06/23/07
Forman ought to have put his film to The Question a little longer before letting it loose on the world.
08/13/07
Ultimately fails to match the competence of its director.
07/18/07
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