Goya's Ghosts Critic Reviews

Goya's Ghosts is like the sketchbook Goya might have made with a camera.Read the full review

An oddly structured tale about Francisco Goya and the Spain that he lived and worked in.Read the full review

Ambitious script is stranded between entertainment and intellectualism, leaving us with a magnificent folly, thoroughly watchable for its visuals but ultimately hollow.Read the full review

Lavish production and wardrobe design, as well as beautiful cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe make Goya's Ghosts lovely to look at, but as a portrait of the artist, the movie is a letdown.Read the full review

Below-the-line credits are terrific, which only increases an overwhelming sense of disappointment with the film's failed ambitions.Read the full review

Handsome but stilted.Read the full review

An unwieldy mix of political satire and lavish period soap opera.Read the full review

The movie is uneven in the extreme, to the extent that it feels like two imperfectly wed pictures. The first, while not extraordinary, at least contains some interesting ideas. The second borders on embarrassing: an overblown melodrama complete with coincidence building upon coincidence and plot threads that are left unresolved.Read the full review

If Forman is trying to communicate that art isn't an effective way to change American society, he's proved his point neatly with this muddled, wandering dud.Read the full review