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Movie Review for Good Year, A
Movie Review for
Good Year, A
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103 Reviews total.
Release date: 11/10/2006
Run length: 118 mins.
Categories:
Comedy
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Drama
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Romance
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Adaptation
Summary:
London-based investment expert Max Skinner (Russell Crowe) travels to Provence to tend a small vineyard he inherited from his late uncle. When he gets suspended from his job under suspicion of fraud, he settles in to life at the chateau, remembering the time he spent there as a child. Then a determined young California girl (Abbie Cornish) arrives claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of the deceased uncle and rightful owner of the vineyard.
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Kevin Carr
of 7M Pictures (8/0)
Under the Tuscan Sun for men
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (8/0)
The course A Good Year takes feels like it's on rails: there's only one possible destina...
By
Philip Martin
of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8/0)
It's harmless. If by harmless you mean zombifying and cynical.
By
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8/0)
...as stale as a week-old baguette.
By
Lori Hoffman
of Atlantic City Weekly (8/0)
Crowe has located his funnybone again in a conventional but engaging romantic comedy ...
By
Marc Savlov
of Austin Chronicle (8/0)
There are precious few surprises in A Good Year -- its story, like its garden paths, is well-trod...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Paul Arendt
of BBC (8/0)
Ridley Scott's sun-dappled tale of wine-making in the wilds of Provence slips down easily enough ...
By
Ty Burr
of Boston Globe (8/0)
...there's the pleasure of seeing Crowe lighten his load for once and not carry the weight of Mar...
By
Jessica Reaves
of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
...unbearably sweet and emotionally lifeless...
By
Peter Rainer
of Christian Science Monitor (8/0)
The lush glimmer of the scenery is so eye-catching that it's easy to sit back and experience A Go...
By
Joshua Tyler
of CinemaBlend.com (8/0)
What would happen if Ridley Scott directed Under the Tuscan Sun and replaced Diane Lane with Rus...
By
Kim Voynar
of Cinematical (8/0)
... a film with all the subtlety and bouquet of a screw-top bottle of wine purchased in the barga...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Mark Palermo
of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (8/0)
Every Scott movie has worthwhile visual dazzle, but this is what happens when Hollywood giants le...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
They were so adamant about not repeating [Gladiator's] themes that they borrowed a new one from P...
By
Edward Douglas
of ComingSoon.net (8/0)
Pays homage to classic European cinema without being overly pretentious or particularly deep.
By
Matt Brunson
of Creative Loafing (8/0)
Scott tries to pump up this slender tale into something more meaningful: His tactic of choice is ...
By
Erik Childress
of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
Any vacation which could dry out Russell Crowe's intensity is probably a good thing. Just not as ...
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
With this minor romantic fable Scott enters into the turf of Hallstrom's yarns about Life's Big L...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Lisa Schwarzbaum
of Entertainment Weekly (8/0)
...the movie is out of sync with the times...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
Like spending two hours with someone who is tiresome but who thinks you should find him exceeding...
By
Erica Abeel
of Film Journal International (8/0)
This Gallic tourist-porn feels as stale as yesterday's baguette.
By
Sean O'Connell
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
The highlights in this exaggerated travelogue are few and far between.
By
Sean O'Connell
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
the scenery's about the only thing worth appreciating in this mediocre Year.
By
Brian Orndorf
of FilmJerk.com (8/0)
As much respect I have for Crowe as a dramatic actor, the painful truth is, comedy just isn't his...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Brent Simon
of FilmStew.com (8/0)
Could be packaged alongside Under the Tuscan Sun and sold with matching, his-and-hers fluffy bath...
By
Eric Lurio
of Greenwich Village Gazette (8/0)
It's so goddamned cute you almost want to puke, but you don't. This is the most charming movie of...
By
Kirk Honeycutt
of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
You know what the filmmakers are trying to achieve and see the labor going into the attempt, but ...
By
Kit Bowen
of Hollywood.com (8/0)
Is it good for those Gladiator dudes Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe to team up again for a romant...
By
Bruce Westbrook
of Houston Chronicle (8/0)
A Good Year builds so much fairy-tale contrivance with such boisterous high spirits that it's exh...
By
Gary Brown
of Houston Community Newspapers (8/0)
A Good Year is nothing to Crowe about.
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (8/0)
Completely vacuous. A Good Year isn't. It isn't even a good minute. It's a romantic comedy wit...
By
Jane Stevenson
of Jam! Movies (8/0)
Ridley Scott's obvious love affair with sunny and sensual Provence ultimately makes A Good Year w...
By
Andrea Chase
of Killer Movie Reviews (8/0)
the best way to sum up [Crowe] is shockingly lacking in anything resembling charm. There is not e...
By
Andy Klein
of Los Angeles CityBeat (8/0)
When I think of humor and lightness of touch, Scott is about the last director to leap to mind, a...
By
Bob Strauss
of Los Angeles Daily News (8/0)
Russell Crowe trying to twinkle may not be the most unsettling thing on the big screen this seaso...
By
Kenneth Turan
of Los Angeles Times (8/0)
Figuring out why director Ridley Scott and star Russell Crowe were happy as can be to make A Good...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Pete Hammond
of Maxim (8/0)
It's pleasant stuff, going down about as easy as a vintage merlot.
By
Matt Pais
of Metromix.com (8/0)
Crowe's as excellent a romantic lead as he is a gladiator, and A Good Year wouldn't be nearly as ...
By
Mary-Liz Shaw
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/0)
Movies with predictable arcs rise or fall on their cinematic moments. Fortunately, there are seve...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
Scott's film is like a reproduction of things he's seen in romantic comedies over the years with ...
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (8/0)
...there are far worse ways to spend two hours than watching a surprisingly charming Crowe...
By
Jan Stuart
of Newsday (8/0)
This flat-as-last-night's-champagne comedy is yet another epiphanic tale about a hard-driving cor...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Jeffrey Westhoff
of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (8/0)
The humor is fast and witty - P.G. Wodehouse on rocket fuel.
By
Scott Tobias
of Onion AV Club (8/0)
Almost entirely siphons the magic out of [Mayle's Provence]
By
Cole Haddon
of Orlando Weekly (8/0)
It’s ultimately a so-so movie that does little more than answer what should’ve been an ironic que...
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (8/0)
Does not translate into a good film.
By
Jeremy C. Fox
of Pajiba (8/0)
A Good Year is, structurally, nothing more than a rickety assembly of the creakiest cinematic cli...
By
Jeanne Aufmuth
of Palo Alto Weekly (8/0)
To quote a classic cinematic oenophile -- quaffable but far from transcendent.
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Mike Sage
of Peterborough This Week (8/0)
Where A Good Year is headed is obvious before the opening frame, but working from a warm script, ...
By
Sean Burns
of Philadelphia Weekly (8/0)
A leaden attempt at an upbeat romp from the downcast, feel-bad tag team of actor Russell Crowe an...
By
Scott Warren
of Premiere Magazine (8/0)
Provence looks like a lovely place to visit and Mr. Scott deserves his rest now and then, but let...
By
Linda Cook
of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (8/0)
You can do worse than seeing a movie with gorgeous scenery, a predictable plot and sweet characte...
By
David Nusair
of Reel Film Reviews (8/0)
...it's hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment as the film quickly reveals itself to be an i...
By
Pam Grady
of Reel.com (8/0)
Whatever joy Scott and his cohorts might have experienced on location didn't make its way into th...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Robin Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (8/0)
They [director Ridley Scott and star Russell Crowe] may have had a good time making the film, but...
By
Jeffrey Chen
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (8/0)
One could do worse than to please one's eyes with the pictures here, but that may be as far as an...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (8/0)
Albert Finney is in top form in the small but crucial role of Max's childhood mentor, whose lesso...
By
Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone (8/0)
Russell Crowe has many talents, but a gift for light comedy is not one of them.
By
Stephanie Zacharek
of Salon.com (8/0)
A Good Year is the kind of polished Hollywood product that intelligent, informed, hip consumers o...
By
Stephanie Zacharek
of Salon.com (8/0)
In A Good Year, Crowe gets to make jokes and wisecracks that show off his boyishly mischievous co...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (8/0)
Despite all the sunny, Provencale charms, the plot is a wisp of wee gags, peeps of flesh, mildly ...
By
Peter Hartlaub
of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
Crowe tries a romantic comedy, manages neither.
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
It has its moments (and plenty of scenery), but, all things considered, it's a bit of a disappoin...
By
Moira MacDonald
of Seattle Times (8/0)
On a rainy day, A Good Year may be welcome fantasy; the question is whether anyone will remember ...
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (8/0)
Scott is clearly aiming for cute and wacky while hedging his bets with sticky nostalgia.
By
Fernando F. Croce
of Slant Magazine (8/0)
A Good Year suggests not so much the stirring of a soul as Sir Ridley grinding his teeth behind t...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
of Spirituality and Practice (8/0)
Magically transports us to the sensuous setting of southern France where memory, love, and a gran...
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
A Good Year is a bad movie.
By
David Jenkins
of Time Out (8/0)
Escapist dilettantes may find A Good Year light, breezy and charming but even the most rudimentar...
By
Tony Medley
of tonymedley.com (8/0)
Despite the failings of the script and the story, it was the ambience that made the film an enjoy...
By
Ken Fox
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (8/0)
Ridley Scott's lush adaptation of Peter Mayle's novel about a ruthless London commodities trader ...
By
Jonathan R. Perry
of Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (8/0)
'Look Homeward, Gladiator' hints at new dimensions of warmth and heart in Russell Crowe and Ridle...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Urban Cinefile Critics
of Urban Cinefile (8/0)
It doesn't matter that the storyline of Ridley Scott's A Good Year is different from that of its ...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (8/0)
...audiences will be checking their watches...
By
Matthew Turner
of ViewLondon (8/0)
The tourist brochure photography and colourful supporting cast make up for a lot, but this never ...
By
Willie Waffle
of WaffleMovies.com (8/0)
When did Russell Crowe morph into Jimmy Fallon? You practically can see Crowe screaming to the a...
By
Susan Granger
of www.susangranger.com (8/0)
Slick and sweet but superficial and only occasionally intoxicating.
By
Christy Lemire
of Associated Press (3/5) No reference
It's an ambitious experiment, and not a completely successful one.
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Shlomo Schwartzberg
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/5) No reference
Audiences will have to be content with the admittedly lovely Provence landscape and Ridley Scott’...
By
Bill Zwecker
of Chicago Sun-Times (3/5) No reference
...best described as sweet, touching, romantic and lovely...
By
Pablo Villaca
of Cinema em Cena (7/1) No reference
Bobo e descartável, é apenas um exemplar pouco inspirado de uma história que já vimos ser contada...
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/1) No reference
Russell Crowe would appear to mix with light comedy about the same way oil mixes with water. Whic...
By
Luke Y. Thompson
of E! Online (6/2) No reference
Alternately, you could do your laundry, which would be just as exciting and possibly more dramati...
By
James Sanford
of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/1) No reference
an aggressively mellow comedy that shows off the bucolic beauty of Provence, extolls the virtues ...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Robert W. Butler
of Kansas City Star (3/5) No reference
One suspects it was a lot more fun to make this movie than it is to watch it.
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/1) No reference
Plonk is a Britishism for cheap, low-quality wine -- not undrinkable, by any means, just nothing...
By
Michael Elliott
of Movie Parables (7/1) No reference
A great movie is like a fine wine%u2026 we seem to better appreciate it after we experience a bad...
By
Kurt Loder
of MTV (3/5) No reference
It's an amiable picture, and witty in parts; but it never goes anywhere you don't expect it to, a...
By
Stephen Whitty
of Newark Star-Ledger (3/5) No reference
Close your eyes. And now imagine the whole thing re-cast and shot by Stanley Donen back in, say, ...
By
Shawn Levy
of Oregonian (3/5) No reference
If this is A Good Year, please spare us a bad one.
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (3/5) No reference
A Good Year is like a promising wine that's a bit new to the bottle. It goes down rough, but ther...
By
Gary Thompson
of Philadelphia Daily News (3/5) No reference
Crowe never connects with this character, and his internal journey from putz to prince never atta...
By
Jack Garner
of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (3/5) No reference
Intentions are good in A Good Year, but the sweat is too obvious on the brows of all involved.
By
Carla Meyer
of Sacramento Bee (7/1) No reference
Awkward when delivering lighthearted dialogue, Crowe seems profoundly uncomfortable with physical...
By
Phoebe Flowers
of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/5) No reference
You've got to wonder if old pals Scott and Crowe had such a great time on the set, they simply fo...
By
Daniel M. Kimmel
of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (3/5) No reference
...an airy, pleasant diversion for those who like light entertainment, solidly constructed. Like...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Lawrence Toppman
of Charlotte Observer (7/1) Not Reachable
Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe attempt light romantic comedy in A Good Year, and the results are ...
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (7/1) Not Reachable
A pleasant enough diversion if you can get past the 'Borat'-like embarrassment of slapstick momen...
By
Mary F. Pols
of Contra Costa Times (7/1) Not Reachable
A Good Year is the story of a jerk in an expensive suit who inherits a French chateau and, after ...
By
Rene Rodriguez
of Miami Herald (7/1) Not Reachable
A Good Year is never less than visually ravishing, its warm, inviting vistas of the French countr...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/1) Not Reachable
A guy version of a chick flick, and like regular chick flicks, it's pretty sappy stuff, though wi...
By
Jim Lane
of Sacramento News & Review (7/1) Not Reachable
...starts out as pleasantly predictable...but bogs down...
Reviews of Good Year, A
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/5) Not Reachable
If nothing else, A Good Year conveys why the people in Provence are sick to mort of tourists who ...
Movie Distributors
20th Century Fox Distribution
20th Century Fox International Production Companies
Scott Free Productions Movie Studios
Fox 2000
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