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Director Scott Hicks ( Shine ) takes a few knocks: "If ever there was an example of a director's getting in the way of a story, this is it" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Strangely enough, Ethan Hawke--the film's biggest star--gets almost no mention.
Newsweek 's David Ansen is more ambivalent, saying it's "alternately amazing and annoying ...
Several critics say it "does not deliver on what could have been a promising premise" (Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times ), but Newsweek 's David Ansen finds it "funny, sentimental, cheerfully bawdy."
It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."
This big-budget remake is deemed a bastardization of director Fred Zinnemann's 1973 political thriller, The Day of the Jackal . "At best generic, at worst nonsensical," says Newsweek 's David Ansen.