The Majestic Critic Reviews

It tells a full story with three acts, it introduces characters we get to know and care about, and it has something it passionately wants to say.Read the full review

Channels the spirit of Frank Capra in this serio-sentimental fable about a man who loses his memory but finds his soul.Read the full review

Maybe this well-loved Luke is who his neighbors want him to be, a good fellow who, with his father, reopens the old movie house in town -- the Majestic -- thus allowing his neighbors to dream in the dark again.Read the full review

A sweet, visually handsome sermon, but it's too dramatically bland to convert even the converted.Read the full review

A pale imitation that challenges credulity and tries too hard to win our hearts with schmaltz.Read the full review

The most indolent waste of screen time since Andy Warhol's marathon shot of the Empire State Building.Read the full review

It's too manufactured and deliberate to be persuasive.Read the full review

The Majestic isn't. Rather it's "The Film That Wasn't There," a derivative, self-satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple-minded if it tried. And it tries, oh, how it tries.Read the full review

A thick slice of bogus inspirational cheese that only makes itself look bad by recycling so many golden movie memories.Read the full review