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The subject remained interesting enough to this provincial American to accept and ultimately enjoy the film's well-worn romanticism, even with its resignedly tired happy ending.
Memoirs of a Geisha is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
... a fascinating glimpse at a lost world of women with skin of porcelain and spines of steel, and the men in their thrall.
It is a lush, blushingly romantic portrait of Asian culture as seen through a Western lens.
The performances are good, the visuals are lush, the span is epic, but the film simply never soars.
... good-looking but not quite memorable ...
It's lush, stylish and a feast for the eyes and ears rather than the heart and soul.
The screenplay was lacking, the characters not engaging, the story dragged on and no real insights on being a geisha. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Visually gorgeous, but slow-moving and not meant for kids.
Sayuri's journey was just interesting enough to make it enjoyable, but the visual style was the true marvel.
While there is a single disc version of this movie on DVD, the first and best release is a two-disc set.
Director Rob Marshall has a sophomore flop on his hands.
For all of its inaccuracies and over-the-top mise-en-scène, Memoirs is quite entertaining.
The overall effect is not so unlike Mameha's description of geisha themselves: a moving work of art.
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