- CELEBRITY
- 07:45 AM, Apr 27
it won't be hard at all to choose to skip this film and instead to look for a good book to readby Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
is frustrating not because it's an uninteresting movie, but because there's a sense that something better and more ambitious lurks without achieving escape velocityby James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]
ironically, the dialogue in The Words is its chief failingby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
a slick, superficially clever compendium of storiesby Rob Nelson [Variety ]
a lush but fumbling literary melodrama outfitted with an attractive, generations-spanning cast and a puzzle box of three competing narrativesby Barbara VanDenburgh [Arizona Republic ]