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Goya's Ghosts (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 23
Rotten:59
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus: Ornate costumes and a talented cast can't make up for Ghosts' glacial pace and confused plot.
Theatrical Release: Jul 20, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $743,451
Synopsis: From two-time Academy Award® winning director Milos Forman and three-time Academy Award® winning producer Saul Zaentz, GOYA'S GHOSTS is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya... [More]
Starring: Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgaard, Randy Quaid
Director: Milos Forman
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Reviews for Goya's Ghosts
Goya, aqui, é o coadjuvante de luxo de uma história que não faz jus nem mesmo aos seus protagonistas.
12/21/07
A storyline that turns so silly, you half-expect Mel Brooks to show up reprising his "Inquisition" musical number from History of the World Part I.
10/10/07
Goya gets lost as the filmmakers turn Spanish history into a chronicle of easy contemporary targets. They don't just hit the social-political bull's-eye -- they obliterate it with a cannon and inadvertently scorch the dramatic landscape all around it.
09/07/07
Captures the essence of the period -- an intriguing, backward era in Spain -- but without the emotional impact that such a film requires.
08/24/07
Reminds us of the wisdom behind the title of Goya's most famous etching: 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.'
08/24/07
Goya’s Ghosts is less about the eponymous painter than it is a gripping two-part story of politics and faith during and after the Spanish Inquisition.
08/23/07
Goya's Ghosts is a smart, darkly funny and deeply pessimistic film. It looks good and features wonderful performances.
08/18/07
Forman ought to have put his film to The Question a little longer before letting it loose on the world.
08/13/07
Goya's Ghosts has ambitious goals that it never fully attains. It proves intermittently fascinating but ultimately disappointing.
08/11/07
What Forman doesn't give us is drama of sure coherence or credibility, but the trappings entrance.
08/10/07
Goya's Ghosts uses the lives of artists and historical figures to show us the best and the worst of our human impulses.
08/10/07
It's a richly seen and felt movie, but not one with a feel-good message.
08/09/07
A modern sensibility afflicts much of the screenplay, with characters expressing thoughts and opinions for our ears rather than acting as people of that era.
08/08/07
More than two decades ago, Forman gave us Amadeus, a portrait of the historical artist that both captured a time and made its people seem real and recognizable. On that second point, the new film falls far short.
08/03/07
While there are probably computer-generated backgrounds and armies on screen, the movie still has the feel of an old-fashioned epic.
08/03/07
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June 29, 2007:
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