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(1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1   B "Bee Season is a unique cinematic offering, and its dedication to the mysteries of the mind makes for a fascinating sit."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "Siegel and McGehee give the film a deep emotional punch that never stoops to melodrama or sitcom clichés"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin "Words are mystical, magical, and wholly material in Bee Season."   PopPolitics.com   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "Bee Season's mysticism casts an incredibly cold, literal-minded spell. "   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C+ "There is a lot of smug mysticism masquerading as universal truth in Bee Season. It's a movie so confident it's being meaningful that it forgot to include any actual meaning."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "One can admire the struggle of the Naumanns somehow to talk to God, but it would be nice if they said something intelligible to us in the process."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "An engrossing family drama about the destructiveness of spiritual pride and the healing power of selfless love."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "There's no shortage of material on the screen in Bee Season -- it's just not assembled in a satisfying manner."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli '3/4' "A cleverly intentioned but slightly disjointed drama."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 3/5 "A well-told, enjoyable and insightful film, but its not necessarily as revelatory as its makers seem to think."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi "May have blown me away if its driving force wasn't rooted in the secrets of Kabbalah, which instead made me feel like I was being brainwashed with a cult recruitment film"   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick '2/5' "What was appealing and understandably reserved in print is practically glum on screen."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner B- "...a beautiful, thought-provoking film, but it's reliance on poetic imagery over keen characterization keeps its audience at arms length"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 9/10 "In spite of being about a family's dysfunction and its members' inability to connect with each other on an emotional level, this is still a film studded with ideas. It is a film about psychological problems, about religious mysticism, and about intellect"   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 3/5 "Os dez minutos finais de projeção parecem pertencer a um outro filme. Bem ruim, por sinal."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3/5 "While it looks and feels lovely, we're never quite sure what it means"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B- ""Bee Season" is an evenly paced, interestingly told family drama that uses the innocent device of the spelling bee as the thing that changes the Nauman family irrevocably."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford C "This well-meaning mistake gets lost in the metaphors."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 5/10 "The psychological aspects of this 'dysfunctional perfect family' saga fizzle on the screen. Do yourself a favor: read the book. I did - after seeing the movie."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 1/4 "Asked to spell "solipsistic" at one point, I felt sure she was going to say "B-E-E-S-E-A-S-O-N.""   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1