Goya’s Ghosts

There’s an unfortunate tendency in this movie for the forces of history to overtake scenes.

Goya’s Ghosts is such a botch, it left me yearning for a little digital bombast.

It’s never entirely clear who or what the film is about.

Misery, misery, misery.

The movie is uneven in the extreme, to the extent that it feels like two imperfectly wed pictures. The first, while not extraordinary, at least con...

A beautiful disaster of a period picture.

An overstuffed turkey that’s entertaining for all the wrong reasons. It may in fact be the comedy of the summer, a melodramatic folly whose a...

The idea and presence of Goya himself is somehow off-centre and off-balance throughout this directionless movie.

Portman is saddled with the worst role. Ines spends much of her screen time acting blighted and deranged, a condition not improved by Portman&rsquo...

Fascinating ideas do hover, like mournful specters, around the edges of this meticulously detailed movie. But then they disappear, leaving us vague...

Despite noteworthy attention to period detail in production and costume design, these are not enough to carry the film’s confused plot.

Goya’s Ghosts is Milos Forman’s first film since 1999, but you sincerely wish it wasn’t. A logy, rambling period piece, it f...

A punishing misfire.