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McCarthy's Pan
Hollywood Elsewhere —
McCarthy's Pan "No doubt it will be back to the drawings board for Che , Steven Soderbergh 's intricately ambitious, defiantly nondramatic four-hour, 18-minute presentation of scenes from the life of revolutionary icon Che Guevara," writes Variety 's Todd McCarthy . "If the director has gone out of his way to avoid the usual Hollywood biopic conventions, he has also withheld any suggestion of why the charismatic doctor, fighter, diplomat, diarist and intellectual theorist became and remains such a legendary figure; if anything, Che seems diminished by the way he's portrayed ...
Early buzz: Chili Peppers, 'Runaways,' 'Top Chef' and more
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed —
... claims Jimmy Fallon is the new Jay Leno . - Variety has a review of Steven Soderbergh 's Che , which lasts four hours and 18 minutes. - Did you catch the ...
Is ‘Che’ This Year's ‘Southland Tales’?
Vulture —
... everyone got during intermission — a sandwich and a mini–Kit Kat in a brown bag, apparently — and the shaggy and anti-commercial movie that meal interrupted. "No doubt it will be back to the drawing boards for Che," Variety's Todd McCarthy writes in the review that most quickly made its way across the online film world. "Neither half feels remotely like a satisfying stand-alone film, while the whole offers far too many aggravations for its paltry rewards." McCarthy's Variety colleague ...
Today in Cannes Hell: The Great 'Che' Debate Begins [Cannes Film Festival]
Gawker: defamer —
... Deep! Though maybe not deep enough for Todd McCarthy, the Variety grump who held forth with easily the most vicious (and potentially fatal) pan to yet emerge among critics: "Neither half feels remotely like a satisfying stand-alone film, while the whole offers far too many aggravations for its paltry rewards. Scattered partisans are likely to step forward, but the pic in its current form is a commercial impossibility, except on television or DVD." His colleague Anne Thompson ...
Che: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
... for directing me to these first two sites’ reviews). Todd McCarthy at Variety thought it was lacking character and drama and needed to be recut. ...
Cannes Nearly Wrapped
Film Experience Blog —
... who love its epic ambition and violent spectacle and high profile detractors say it skimps on the stuff biopics are traditionally made of: Che's early life, why he is who he is, etcetera... It's journey through theatrical release to Oscar season should be mighty interesting. ...
Cannes: Your Guess is as Good as Mine
Fataculture —
... the Oscar race, but I don’t think it is has a serious chance at taking anything away from Cannes.
“Che” by Steven Soderbergh
So I croaked on this one, and checked on the short quotations of its reviews over at GreenCine, and it turns out that there is a very good chance that no one honestly has a clue whether or not they thought the film to be a masterpiece or trash, at least according to Andrew O’Hehir. Jeff Wells loved it, Todd McCarthy hated it, Richard Corliss was negative about it too, but then Patrick Z ...
Why You Should Take an Interest in Steven Soderbergh's Che
FirstShowing.net —
... If you've come across a few scathing reviews (like this one on Variety) that are claiming the film has no depth, is one big mess, and/or is far too long, don't get too worried. Soderbergh is heading back into the editing room after Cannes to work on tweaking the film before it makes its debut here in North America, which is anyone's guess at the moment. In fact, the print they showed at Cannes didn't have any credits of any sort and also included an intermission. Soderbergh recalls, "The process of editing was intense. The further you get into it, you need context. ...
Cannes Hell Wrap-Up: What Does 'Variety' Have Against 'Che,' Anyway? [Cannes Film Festival]
Gawker: defamer —
... It all started after last Wednesday's marathon press screening, when Todd McCarthy's screed credited "scattered partisans" with contrarian buzz before suggesting "the pic in its current form is a commercial impossibility, except on television or DVD." Fair enough, although a survey of reviews suggests McCarthy himself is the most vocal of the anti-Che minority. Which is fine, right? OK! So we thought we'd let it go, but ...
