Up at the Villa Critic Reviews
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Is a chamber romance, in that there's nothing grand or sweeping about it, but it's got all the style it needs to go with those glorious Tuscan settings.Read the full review
This whole movie is about manners. There is sex and violence, but the movie is not about giving in to them; it's about carrying on as if they didn't exist.Read the full review
In the most extreme moments, Thomas hits her career pinnacle.Read the full review
This least affected of their (Haases) movies is also the most dramatically and emotionally convincing.Read the full review
Moderately pleasing adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella.Read the full review
For novelty value, you can do worse than seeing Sean Penn in a rare chance to don evening-wear on screen, but this isn't a sight to sustain a two-hour haul.Read the full review
It reminds us that Italy is beautiful, that Fascism was a dreadful nuisance and that Sean Penn is a great actor, deserving of better vehicles than this vintage lemon.Read the full review
It's fun to see Sean Penn portray a playboy, like Bogart in "Casablanca," who hides his true heart behind a layer of cynicism.Read the full review
Politics is almost an afterthought in this balky, attenuated film.Read the full review
The melodrama of the Maugham original is too simplistic to involve, and the places the film's plot goes are so obvious that even the presence of quality actors can't create sufficient interest.Read the full review
