It's a richly seen and felt movie, but not one with a feel-good message.
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08/09/07
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Goya's Ghosts (2007)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:8
Rotten:17
Average Rating:4.7/10
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
Top CriticA modern sensibility afflicts much of the screenplay, with characters expressing thoughts and opinions for our ears rather than acting as people of that era.
08/08/07
Top CriticA punishing misfire.
08/03/07
Top CriticMisery, misery, misery.
08/03/07
Top CriticWhile there are probably computer-generated backgrounds and armies on screen, the movie still has the feel of an old-fashioned epic.
08/03/07
Top CriticThe film's greatest moments of artistry are in the credits, which feature a breathtaking gallery of the painter's work.
08/02/07
Top CriticWrong, wrong, wrong, every step of the way.
07/23/07
Top CriticIt 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 CriticRich in color and period detail, the film attempts an epic sprawl it never quite achieves, but the movie is always enjoyable and interesting.
07/20/07
Top CriticAn across-the-board disaster from one of my favorite directors, Milos Forman.
07/20/07
Top CriticFascinating 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
Top CriticOne of [Forman's] more fanciful [biopics], spinning a historical melodrama around the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya.
07/20/07
Top CriticAn extraordinarily beautiful film that plays almost like an excuse to generate its images.
07/20/07
Top CriticAn overstuffed turkey that's entertaining for all the wrong reasons. It may in fact be the comedy of the summer, a melodramatic folly whose ambitions consistently curdle into camp.
07/20/07
Top CriticGoyas Ghosts, the new feature from the director Milos Forman, is an unwieldy mix of political satire and lavish period soap opera.
07/20/07
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 CriticThere's an unfortunate tendency in this movie for the forces of history to overtake scenes.
07/19/07
Top CriticNot a perfect film, but its implications have profound resonance.
07/19/07
Top CriticHandsome but stilted.
07/19/07
Top CriticGoya'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
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June 29, 2007:
The ultimate accidental insight provided by the film is that history may be recorded by the victors, but it is far less amenable to being smoothly scripted or orchestrated, either by foreign empires or filmmakers. 
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