Charlotte Gray Critic Reviews

Rarely has a movie that looked so good on paper fallen so flat as the aptly named Charlotte Gray. It's not a bad movie. Bad movies have more flavor.Read the full review

Blanchett, Crudup and Gambon stand above and somehow apart from the absurdities of the screenplay.Read the full review

A frustratingly inert story, a bookend to last year's wooden ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin.''Read the full review

Charlotte Gray, for all Blanchett's radiance and intelligence in the title role, is a bore.Read the full review

From a purely technical perspective, Charlotte Gray is expertly made -- the cinematography and music are evocative, and lead actress Cate Blanchett has no problem holding our attention. But, while Armstrong gets the notes right, she fails to play them with inspiration.Read the full review

Director Gillian Armstrong turns Sebastian Faulks' pungent novel about World War II into a soporific.Read the full review

Cate Blanchett has the title role, and she does wonders with it, bringing a degree of passion but also suggesting something essentially unevolved in Charlotte's character.Read the full review

The movie works so diligently to convey a spirit of heroic uplift and fails so completely that it feels like a tragic misfire.Read the full review

Displays so much promise with its beautiful cinematography and superb portrayal by Cate Blanchett that you scarcely notice (or even care) that the story is a bit thin.Read the full review