The Painter and the Thief
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All Critics (15) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (10)
The elements are in place but they don't add up to great drama in this well-meant effort to personalize the plight of illiterate people. January 11, 2008 | Full Review…
The elements are in place but they don't add up to great drama in this well-meant effort to personalize the plight of illiterate people.
Variety Staff
The ending, despite good intentions, is American cinema at its tackiest and most hollow. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
The ending, despite good intentions, is American cinema at its tackiest and most hollow.
Stephen Garrett
It's as honest and direct and entertaining as the considerable talents of everyone involved can make it. August 30, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's as honest and direct and entertaining as the considerable talents of everyone involved can make it.
Vincent Canby
McAlpine may be the movie's smartest contributor. He alone seems to realize that this pedantic project will soon be graduating into home-video or classroom use. January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
McAlpine may be the movie's smartest contributor. He alone seems to realize that this pedantic project will soon be graduating into home-video or classroom use.
Desson Thomson
Here, in a movie less animated than a barrel of tree sloths, Ritt encourages stale performances and a pace as dull as more tree sloths. January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Here, in a movie less animated than a barrel of tree sloths, Ritt encourages stale performances and a pace as dull as more tree sloths.
Rita Kempley
It's the very definition of a "nice" film, never offending, never offering emotional fireworks, but hitting its notes with Ritt's soft-spoken grace. June 4, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's the very definition of a "nice" film, never offending, never offering emotional fireworks, but hitting its notes with Ritt's soft-spoken grace.
Matthew Lucas
While some of the sloppy filmmaking can be forgiven, the film's core message cannot. January 11, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
While some of the sloppy filmmaking can be forgiven, the film's core message cannot.
Although the construction is somewhat haphazard, the intention is well meaning and DeNiro gives a characteristically sensitive rendering. July 6, 2005 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Although the construction is somewhat haphazard, the intention is well meaning and DeNiro gives a characteristically sensitive rendering.
Angie Errigo
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Emanuel Levy
...a harmless little romance that's elevated slightly by the charisma of its two stars... August 12, 2004 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
...a harmless little romance that's elevated slightly by the charisma of its two stars...
David Nusair
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John Esther
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