Head in the Clouds Critic Reviews

A lively, plush but unconvincing potboiler cobbled from familiar pieces of better films (and TV miniseries). Read the full review

A snooze, despite all the sex and other gunplay. Read the full review

Lacks freshness and vitality. Read the full review

Unconvincing melodrama.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

This spark-free film has no place to go on their resumes except under the heading of "Cringing Embarrassment." Read the full review

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

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

This pulpy, sex-drenched wartime epic seems frivolous, quaint and foolishly prurient. Read the full review