| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Longino |
"Pretty & boring." more... |
C |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"Ancient love story gets lost in the lethargy." more... |
C- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...a lean and effective action romance." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt |
"Mindless, predictable and mildly entertaining..." more... |
C |
| E! Online |
"Alas, our love for this movie is one that can never be." more... |
C+ |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"Working with an explanatory script by Dean Georgaris, Reynolds is much more confident in scenes of realistic battle, or even muddy marketplace dailiness, than he is with scenes of desire." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"A feeble medieval epic with a lackluster romance at its center." more... |
D |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"...Tristan & Isolde makes sacking and pillaging about as exciting as the line at the post office." more... |
C- |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
"...Tristan & Isolde has nothing new to say about either love or filmmaking, but that, too, isn't necessarily a bad thing." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"The best thing about the romance is that it seems real." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"To confront the failure of Tristan & Isolde is to wonder how other epic love stories have succeeded." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Winda Benedetti |
"...a lengthy, meditative and ultimately lackluster period piece about young love and the price of loyalty." more... |
C |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"This relationship lacks a critical ingredient: passion." more... |
B- |
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