“The visual lushness is so overpowering that it nearly comes across as clueless.”

“Gosling does enough stumbling and bumbling and falling from balconies (twice!) to earn the term Keatonesque.”

“McGregor pulls off the trick of making two iconic figures register as flesh-and-blood characters.”

“Society doesn’t come undone as much as it artfully spasms.”

“…lightly touches on many familiar genres without indulging in the clichés of any of them.”

“…a tale of two men being manipulated, and possibly loved, by a powerful and conflicted woman.”

“…inflates one man’s privileged angst to mythical status.”

“An intriguing detour for Elaine May…”

“…carves out a truly unique space in the gap that exists between agnostic Hollywood filmmaking and church-funded, faith-based indies.”

“There is one clear target for Buñuel that crosses all ideological lines: hypocrisy.”