Blindness, based on José Saramago's 1995 novel (read review here), is the latest film adapted from a book by a Nobel laureate. But over the last decade, EW critics haven't always warmed to Nobel-minted movies.
Beloved
1998
Jonathan Demme's ''literal-minded'' version of Toni Morrison's classic
stars Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. C+
Pavilion of Women
2001
This ''utterly predictable'' adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's novel stars
Willem Dafoe as a priest. D+
The Piano Teacher
2002
Michael Haneke, master of the unsettling, crafts a ''grimly disquieting''
film based on Elfriede Jelinek's novel. B
The Mystic Masseur
2002
Future Daily Show-er Aasif Mandvi stars in a ''just plain dull'' film from
a V.S. Naipaul novel. C-
Fateless
2005
Imre Kertész's autobiographical WWII novel inspired Hungarian director
Lajos Koltai's ''disturbingly beautiful'' debut. A-
Love in the Time of Cholera
2007
Javier Bardem can't save Mike Newell's ''turgid and lifeless'' take on
Gabriel García Márquez's epic. D
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- Video Review Beloved | Mike D'Angelo
- Movie Review Beloved (1998) | Owen Gleiberman
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- Movie News Epic-length films are on the rise (1998) | Rebecca Ascher-Walsh
- Movie News Early Oscar contenders (1998) | Dave Karger
- Movie News Who knew that ''Beloved'' and ''Bride of Chucky'' were so similar? (1998) | Kristen Baldwin, Will Lee
