Gods and Monsters Critic Reviews

An actors' feast.Read the full review

Achieves its exquisite tension--deepening beautifully from a "Death in Venice" setup to an imaginative meditation, on art and life, of uncommon sensitivity.Read the full review

In a performance of enormous complexity and nuance, emotions seem to race across McKellen's face like hurrying clouds.Read the full review

Elegantly witty and haunting . . . McKellen gives the performance of his career . . . and Brendan Fraser excels.Read the full review

Chances are, the more you love classic cinema, the more you will find Gods is your cup of tea.Read the full review

Doesn’t always convince, particularly in the last lap. But it’s an engrossing, unusual, imaginatively executed bit of psychological gamesmanship nonetheless.Read the full review

There are so many colors to McKellen's performance, so many diverse emotions fleetingly play on his face, that resisting his art is out of the question. Better work by an actor will not be seen this year.Read the full review

What especially elevates it is the razor-sharp cleverness of McKellen's performance, which brings unusual fullness and feeling to a most unusual man.Read the full review

Eminently watchable thanks to strong performances from its three leads (McKellen, Redgrave, Fraser).Read the full review