Swept Away: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

RottenTomatoes: 78 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

59

Sound the trumpets: For the first time since Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna doesn't suck as an actress.
Full Review » 10 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

30

There is no credible feeling here, no comedy, no eroticism.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

The film turns out to have nothing going for it at all.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

At no point should anyone mistake this for an actual movie. This is an extended beach video that will leave no one swept away.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

After a ghastly start, it becomes a curiously affecting document of a director trying to show the world why he loves his wife -- not the changeling pop star, but the actress.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

Like life on the island, the movie grows boring despite the scenery.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

25

It's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

The kind of bad movie that only talented people can make.
Full Review » 10 years ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Both husband and wife seem to be in way over their heads.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

Down the line, this movie may become a camp classic. At the moment, it's a stitch.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Randy Cordova Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

20

It's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

If there is one thing worse than a Guy Ritchie movie, it's a Guy Ritchie movie with Madonna in it.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Dennis Harvey Variety (Top Critic)

The Vera Hruba Ralston of her time, Madonna has persisted in making movies despite all evidence that this is one medium in which no one wants to see or hear her.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Megan Turner New York Post (Top Critic)

0

Swept Away's worst crime is that it is butt-numbingly B-O-R-I-N-G.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Susan Walker Toronto Star (Top Critic)

40

For all his fidelity to the Wertmuller screenplay, Ritchie has made a movie that is neither as attractive nor as repulsive, and certainly not as funny, as the original.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

25

What Madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately, it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing, sometimes all at once.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

I wouldn't wish the stupefying dialogue of "Swept Away" on any actress, but to watch Madonna flounder through it is more punishment than I can bear.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

38

A better title, for all concerned, might be Swept Under the Rug.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Is it a comedy? A drama? A romance? A cartoon?
Full Review » 10 years ago
Christy Lemire Associated Press (Top Critic)

Every bit the cinematic shipwreck you'd imagine it to be.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

0

No yacht was harmed during shooting. It's the movie that's the shipwreck.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Manohla Dargis Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

30

This rough trade Punch-and-Judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

20

What a waste of potential.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile

Don't count on being swept away by this contrived, predictable shipwrecked romance.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Garth Franklin Dark Horizons

0

[An] utter piece of flotsam.
Full Review » 5 years ago