Copying Beethoven

You can mock this film if you like, but it remains watchable throughout. And the ears have it when the eyes don't.

If the composer's shade could hear the words this script has put in his mouth it really would be a case of "roll over, Beethoven", right there in his grave.

A great example of that time-honoured genre, the biopic so silly it plays like a spoof.

Amateurishly written, scarcely acted tosh.

A fatuous, bafflingly imagined tale of the unhappy and unwell Beethoven and his ordeal in preparing the Ninth Symphony for its premiere.

Diane Kruger is the most appealing scenery in this rose-tinted nonsense.

Earnest but lackluster period biopic on the final days of the mentally tortured deaf composer Ludwig von Beethoven.

Stuck between Kruger's blankness and Harris's overemoting, the film never finds a balance.

The once promising Polish director Agnieszka Holland ("Olivier, Olivier") stumbles with this muddled story about Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger), a 23-year-old composition student sent to 1824 Vienna to transcribe sheet music for the demanding and cruel Ludwig

It's the kind of movie made purely for acting awards, which is really unfair to audiences who deserve at least some story for their money.