Russell Crowe smiling! Truly, Ridley Scott’s A Good Year is a strange thing to behold. Dewy and inert, it’s a film that could be packaged alongside Under the Tuscan Sun and sold with matching, his-and-hers fluffy bathrobes. It’s made by people who are talented, absolutely, but also
wholeheartedly sure of that talent. The phrase “courage of one’s
convictions” comes to mind, insomuch as there’s a foolhardy confidence
that comedy has a single definitive formula that can be cracked like
the spine of a book. For the full review, from FilmStew, click here.