Review: The Beach
The Beach " is a seriously confused film that makes three or four passes at being a better one and doesn't complete any of them. ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 02/11/00
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Review: The Beach
Let me start with a disclosure: I have not read the Alex Garland novel upon which The Beach is based, so I'm not in a position to discuss ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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DiCaprio Swims With the Plankton in Paradise
The NY Times review of The Beach, a Danny Boyle film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton. The Beach movie trailer, showtimes, ...
The New York Times - Elvis Mitchell - 02/11/00
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Review: The Beach
The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Robert Carlyle, Guillaume Canet, Tilda Swinton Written by John Hodge Directed by Danny ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Flawed paradise
Even in the Garden of Eden, there was a serpent lurking to spoil paradise. It's something the hero of The Beach neglects to ponder when he ...
Canoe.ca - LOUIS B. HOBSON - 02/11/00
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Leo gets marooned by script
The Beach is a movie that comes with more than its share of can't-miss marketing cachet. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, fresh from his triumphant ...
Canoe.ca - RANDALL KING - 02/11/00
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Review: The Beach (2000)
If the sole purpose of movies was to offer up gorgeous scenery and camerawork, intermixed with astoundingly memorable and quirky music (including ...
TheMovieBoy.com - Dustin Putman - 02/12/00
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Beach party pooper
In The Beach, it's not what Leonardo Di Caprio has on, it's what he has not. Di Caprio's topless through much of Danny Boyle's melodramatic ...
Canoe.ca - BOB THOMPSON - 02/11/00
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Paradise lost
Finding paradise is one thing. Holding on to it is another story. Paradise in this case is a secluded beach on a restricted island in the Gulf of ...
Canoe.ca - DREW McANULTY - 02/11/00
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Review: BEACH, THE
This slick thriller, which was plagued by production problems and a delayed release, never decides whether it wants to be an exotic, ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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Review: The Beach
There is little escape from American culture in today's world. Now, at the onset of the twenty-first century, even the most remote regions of the ...
Kinnopio.com - Craig Roush
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Review: The Beach
Imagine Lord of the Flies meets The Blair Witch Project, made as an art film for 13-to 16-year-old girls, and you've got The Beach, ...
Palo Alto Online - Leonard Schwarz
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Review: The Beach
I had extremely low expectations going into this Leo vehicle and even they weren't fulfilled. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Richard, ...
Film Threat - Chris Gore - 02/11/00
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THE BEACH Film Review
Anyone familiar with the so-called "bag of money" trilogy ("Shallow Grave," "Trainspotting" and "A Life Less Ordinary") should not be too ...
Boxoffice Online - Wade Major
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JoBlo's movie review of The Beach: Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaime Canet
The excellent showing by DiCaprio and the slick soundtrack don't take away from the fact that this film starts off strong, slows down considerably ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian
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Review: The Beach
Danny Boyle says he was "keen to distance this movie from Lord of the Flies , which The Beach has been unfairly compared to. ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: The Beach
Getting away with it all on an unspoilt tropical beach is not the idyll of your lottery winning dreams in this unnerving drama of a hidden Eden ...
Empire Online - Angie Errigo
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Review: The Beach (2000)
THE BEACH * (2000) Directed by Danny Boyle;Written by JohnHodge, based on the book by Alex Garland. Photography, Darius Khondji. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Edwin Jahiel - 02/25/00
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Review: The Beach (2000)
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Tilda Swinton, Paterson Joseph, Robert Carlyle, Peter Youngblood Hills, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Shay Casey - 02/20/00
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Review: The Beach (2000)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Tilda Swinton, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle. 2000 - 116 minutes Rated R (for violence, profanity, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dustin Putman - 02/13/00
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Review: The Beach (2000)
Remember when authors like Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer were at the height of their popularity offering intelligent thought provoking reading to ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Ron Small - 02/28/00
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Review: The Beach (2000)
Normally, I try to avoid pitting novels and their film adaptations against each other. Side-by-side comparisons are inevitable, of course, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Andrew Hicks - 02/13/00
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Review: The Beach (2000)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Staffan Kihilbom, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle, Magnus Lindgren, Victoria Smurfit ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Harvey S. Karten - 02/13/00
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Review: Beach, The (2000)
A shallow coming-of-age film about an American tourist named Richard (DiCaprio), seeking adventure in an non touristy way, who travels to exotic ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dennis Schwartz - 03/16/01
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Review: The Beach (2000)
starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet screenplay by John Hodge, based on the book by Alex Garland directed ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Bill Chambers - 02/11/00
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