Head in the Clouds Critic Reviews
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Charlize Theron is one of the few actresses equal to the role, bringing to it beauty, steel-edged repose, and mystery.Read the full review
Lacks freshness and vitality. Read the full review
A lively, plush but unconvincing potboiler cobbled from familiar pieces of better films (and TV miniseries). Read the full review
Unconvincing melodrama.Read the full review
A glossy, stiff melodrama.Read the full review
The film feels more at home with sex than war, like a romance novel where the swinging lovers find their passions stirred by bombs exploding in the distance. Their three-way dalliances are so frivolous and silly that once the action turns dark, Duigan and his cast leave audiences unprepared for the emotional fallout. Read the full review
The plot contrivances are telegraphed too loudly; the emotional manipulation too obvious.Read the full review
This pulpy, sex-drenched wartime epic seems frivolous, quaint and foolishly prurient. Read the full review
If you're up for a relentlessly overripe melodrama that takes place in movie-Europe as opposed to the real thing (the Parisian streetwalkers in berets are a good tip-off), by all means catch Head in the Clouds.Read the full review
Stuart Townsend, Theron's reallife boyfriend, may have inner fires as an actor that have yet to be revealed, but in Head in the Clouds he's a somber puppy who looks as if Theron could eat him alive. I wish she had.Read the full review
