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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    In the most extreme moments, Thomas hits her career pinnacle. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    Is a chamber romance, in that there's nothing grand or sweeping about it, but it's got all the style it needs to go with those glorious Tuscan settings. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This whole movie is about manners. There is sex and violence, but the movie is not about giving in to them; it's about carrying on as if they didn't exist. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Derek Elley

    This least affected of their (Haases) movies is also the most dramatically and emotionally convincing. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Moderately pleasing adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    For novelty value, you can do worse than seeing Sean Penn in a rare chance to don evening-wear on screen, but this isn't a sight to sustain a two-hour haul. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    It's fun to see Sean Penn portray a playboy, like Bogart in "Casablanca," who hides his true heart behind a layer of cynicism. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    It reminds us that Italy is beautiful, that Fascism was a dreadful nuisance and that Sean Penn is a great actor, deserving of better vehicles than this vintage lemon. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Politics is almost an afterthought in this balky, attenuated film. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    The melodrama of the Maugham original is too simplistic to involve, and the places the film's plot goes are so obvious that even the presence of quality actors can't create sufficient interest. Read full review

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