Silk (2007) Critic Reviews

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The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Sensual but profoundly silly, Silk is ultimately little more than softcore porn with arthouse trappings, a moony, dopily romantic "Red Shoe Diaries" variation for the NPR set.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin CrustAdd Critic to Favorites

Though the film aspires to the epic with pretensions of deeper philosophical meaning, it ultimately settles for being the "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" of historical romances.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Everything is brought together at the end in a flash of revelation that is spectacularly underwhelming.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Joshua KosmanAdd Critic to Favorites

Beautiful but flimsy film.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

Mr. Pitt is a reasonably photogenic specimen. But this actor, whose typical screen character is a broken, androgynous man-child, is disastrously miscast.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

By any standards, Silk is a bad movie: pretentious, stillborn, devoid of emotion.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

Silk is a snooze. Vacuous, arid and terminally dull, this adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's freak bestseller hasn't a trace of real life or energy to it, and is hamstrung by a lethargic lead performance by Michael Pitt.Read the full review

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