The Golden Bowl Critic Reviews

Yet another Merchant Ivory triumph.Read the full review

The team's (Merchant-Ivory) best adaptation yet of a Henry James novel.Read the full review

If this handsome, faithful, intelligent screen adaptation of the novel doesn't leave you devastated, its ominous sense of a rarefied moral and aesthetic world bending before the accelerating streetcar of history will leave you with a mournful sense of loss.Read the full review

What Merchant, Ivory and Co. arrive at is a sort of handsomely illustrated Cliffs Notes version of the novel.Read the full review

I admired this movie. It kept me at arm's length, but that is where I am supposed to be; the characters are after all at arm's length from each other, and the tragedy of the story is implied but never spoken aloud.Read the full review

Another handsome, dramatically moribund adaptation of a grand old classic.Read the full review

There's no mirth, and precious little passion, left in this house.Read the full review

The movie establishes good will (or even great will) in the initial scenes because it's so gorgeous, but the rest is such a slog.Read the full review

A deliberately paced literary film that takes too long to build narrative momentum and explore its central dramatic conflicts.Read the full review