Gosford Park Critic Reviews

Never has a film taken such relish in between-the-wars malice as Gosford Park.Read the full review

The movie is so fun that it wouldn't need the mystery to be top-notch entertainment.Read the full review

At a time when too many movies focus every scene on a $20 million star, an Altman film is like a party with no boring guests.Read the full review

Gosford Park abounds in scenes to savor. It's a feast, and one of Altman's best.Read the full review

A virtuoso ensemble piece to rival the director's "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" in its masterly interweaving of multiple characters and subplots.Read the full review

The exhilaration is slow to build. It doesn't come from any one thing but from countless crosscurrents, tiny bits of color that fill out the portrait.Read the full review

The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece.Read the full review

It's the style of the thing, not the plot, that is the attraction here, the great way the cast has with the snarky dialogue.Read the full review

Taking advantage of a splendid cast, a sharply focused script and the fresh English setting, "Gosford Park" emerges as one of the most satisfying of Robert Altman's numerous ensemble pictures.Read the full review