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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 32% Rotten Page   1   2/5 "more stock is put into getting the facts right than in creating much interest in them."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null C+ "Gwyneth Paltrow portrays American writer Sylvia Plath in this torturous biopic... it’s good, but sufficiently interesting only for history/writing aficionados."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "...by the time the movie ends, we don't really feel as though we know what made her tick."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B "This is one of the better made and more believable films about poets, one that should be cherished for its rich depiction of its subjects."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "A mishmash which pretends to atmosphere with snips and snaps of Shakespeare, Auden, Yeats, Hughes, Plath, etc."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit C "She sure was sad. Boy, look how sad she was. She must be bipolar or manic depressive or something. Sad, sad, sad. Oh, and then she killed herself. Sad, sad, sad."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider D- "A woeful two hours of bad poetry, false pathos and intolerable petulance."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "The story of a tortured genius that gives us plenty of the torture but very little of the genius...an unremitting two-hour dirge."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "Sylvia portrays this American poet's obsession with self-destruction and her futile efforts to exorcise her demons with the force of her imagination."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "A standard melodrama that takes its grim tragedy and encases it in a veneer of self-conscious artsyness."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig attach a handsome chemistry to their burgeoning despair."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 1.5/4 "Spelled out in a series of such bald-faced grandiloquent gestures, Sylvia is a Lifetime bio-pic set in a BBC melodrama’s charcoal gray gloom and squalor."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 57/100 "The film's story is one that presents very little to dramatize, but that little has been dramatized very well."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 76/100 "Gwyneth Paltrow is a shining star and plays a faultless dramatic role."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 2/5 "Paltrow provides the depth that the script lacks, making a lot from very little."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner C+ "Sylvia is one big foregone conclusion."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "The movie is approachable, but frankly, the life of Sylvia Plath has little blue-collar appeal"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "I have seen many awful author biopics ("Iris" being especially terrible) but I can’t think of one that I have loathed as much as I loathe 'Sylvia'..."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "Paltrow's hair changes color and style so much that it suggests Sylvia Plath spent most of her time at the beauty parlor."   Film Threat   Phil Hall 3.5/5 "Has the requisite dark tone and superb performances, but it feels simplistic in its examination of the tortured mind of a gifted woman"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C- "A Lifetime movie that happened to land Paltrow for a role that might’ve gone to Melissa Gilbert or Meredith Baxter Birney."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell 1.5/4 "The picture knows the poems that Sylvia Plath wrote, it just doesn't know why. "   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 2/4 "Gwyneth Paltrow is anything but engaging in this rarely interesting look at the life of author Sylvia Plath."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 7/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf 1.5/5 Read review   ToxicUniverse.com   Dan Callahan 4/5 Read review   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 5/10 Read review   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr.  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 32% Rotten Page   1