Modigliani 2004

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Modigliani may have been noted for his drunken volatility and arrogance, but once you get a dozen years or so of Behind the Musics and E! True Hollywood Stories behind you, it's hard to get worked up about that sort of thing anymore. Read more

Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: It is a tidy stack of snapshots, unencumbered by a point of view. Read more

Kim Morgan, L.A. Weekly: Mick Davis' prosaic art biopic Modigliani is a tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk. Read more

Marta Barber, Miami Herald: Despite some nice shots of scenes converting into well-known art, Modigliani is plainly, badly directed. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Modigliani is slow, shamefully cliched and disjointed as a cubist portrait. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously, right down to the undisguised streetwise-American accent of Andy Garcia as the Italian Jew Amedeo Modigliani. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist. Read more

Raven Snook, Time Out: Instead of trying to provide insight into this genius's debilitating madness, Davis prefers to wallow in incoherent and cliched misery, punctuated by poetically oblique imagery. Read more

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Lisa Nesselson, Variety: Failing to invest famous characters with the depth to break free of a made-for-TV feel, earnest misfire does make one want to read up on the real Modigliani. Read more

R. Emmet Sweeney, Village Voice: Sadly, instead of situating the l'amour fou in the artistic ferment of the period (1917-1920), Davis twists the period to fit the story. Read more