Agora Reviews

Movie Reviews

• Unlike most toga movies, it doesn't rely on CGI spectacle, but real drama and ideas

  by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]

• time would be better spent staring at the stars

  by Chris Cabin [Filmcritic.com ]

• Best when viewed as a sprawling period piece

  by Barbara Goslawski [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• an innocuous epic, a pointless spectacle that champions free-thinking intellectuals over violent zealots while ineffectually appealing to the same uncontrollable emotions it condemns

  by Simon Abrams [Slant Magazine ]

• Ambitious in scope, this film feels over-serious and oddly cold

  by Rich Cline [Shadows on the Wall ]

• Always intelligent and thought-provoking, it's a welcome return from Amenabar

  by Phil de Semlyen [Empire Magazine ]

• Agora may be flawed as a narrative feature, but it is a first-class conversation starter

  by Ethan Alter [Film Journal International ]

• Agora is a laudable attempt to grapple with far-reaching material outside the scope of most mainstream cinema, but suffers as a consequence of trying to do too much, and fails to completely fulfil the promise of its rich source material

  by Catherine Bray [Film4 ]

• Agora is a big, broad, stridently atheistic sword-and-sandals entertainment that recounts a tragic turning point in world history

  by Eric Hynes [Village Voice ]

• Agora has an overbearing score which doesn't help and never really gets to grips with its heroine

  by Derek Malcolm [This is London ]

• a movie to admire without ever particularly liking

  by David Edwards [Daily Mirror ]

• a hypnotically crafted, boldly envisioned excursion into the eerily familiar distant past

  by Prairie Miller [NewsBlaze ]

• "Agora" is film that fails at every step to be believable

  Review rate : C by Cole Smithey [ColeSmithey.com ]

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