I have seen wallpaper samples that contain more inherent excitement than this spiritless picture.
Read full articleAn entertaining melodrama with probably more jazz age decadence than Graves would have recognised.
Read full articleThe performances did not redeem the film... I thought it was pretty-looking, but lacking in dramatic tension.
Read full articleFor all the strain the movie exerts, it never comes close to touching the hem of the writers it purports to depict.
Read full articleUnfortunately, the film loses its center early on, as Riding and her manipulations drive much of the action and Graves' ambitions get a bit lost in the shuffle.
Read full articleSome lifeless poetry readings drag the whole enterprise down even further.
Read full articleWhile there's enough in Graves' story to ensure viewers remain compelled throughout, there is a nagging feeling that writer and director William Nunez could've been bolder with the tale.
Read full articleThere are plenty of handsomely mounted dramas about troubled writers, and The Laureate sits comfortably among them without doing anything vastly different.
Read full articleThe Laureate tells this story, which sounds anything but dreary, and yet in writer-director William Nunez’s over-earnest drama somehow manages to be just that.
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