Fresh
The subject remained interesting enough to this provincial American to accept and ultimately enjoy the film's well-worn romanticism, even with its resignedly tired happy ending.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Memoirs of a Geisha
A story like mine has never been told.
2005 · 2h 26m · PG-13
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
Rob Marshall
Overview
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Memoirs of a Geisha is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Fresh
Ultimately, Memoirs of a Geisha compares unfavorably with the book, though it offers pleasures of its own.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
... a fascinating glimpse at a lost world of women with skin of porcelain and spines of steel, and the men in their thrall.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
... the movie is a well-meaning, vaporous bore, enlivened only by occasional traces of Showgirls-style camp and plasticine tears trickling down impeccably powdered cheeks.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
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