With his fierce, impeccable craft Kingsley shows us around David's tortured, preening, desperate psyche. full review

Penelope Cruz is outstanding in an otherwise lame male fantasy.

Sparse, low-budget drama, helmed by Spaniard Isabel Coixet, intelligently translates Roth's meditation on lust and mortality without soft-pedaling its narrator's brutally honest, unabashedly sexist views. full review

Elegy is a rare treat: a serious film that, thanks to Kingsley and the rest, doesn't seem to take itself too seriously. full review

A remarkable example of the actor at his best -- conveying wounded hurt or burning hunger with a glance. full review

Elegy gives Ben Kingsley one of the best roles of his career. full review

It's beautifully photographed and slowly paced, all the better to emphasize the film's emphasis on and exploration of deep feelings. full review

The best dramatic film of the year so far. full review

Occasionally touching, always interesting. full review

The difference this time is the overall quality of the performances. Kingsley and Cruz make the most credible lovers [director Isabel] Coixet has ever paired. full review

It's nicely done. full review

Kingsley perfectly tunes his performance to these psychological nuances, the strong features in his face undone by an anxious flicker of his eyes. full review

The delicious conflict of a thinker poleaxed by his feelings inflames Isabel Coixet's smoldering Elegy, based on Roth's novella The Dying Animal. full review

Elegy is a curious example of misplaced good taste. Spanish-born director Isabel Coixet's film, adapted by Nicholas Meyer, recasts into softer, more palatable material the...third in Philip Roth's stories driven by the sensual obsessions of Roth al full review

Director Isabel Coixet sees David's tragedy, but also his life force, and she draws brilliant work out of Cruz. full review

Wonderful writing, good performances, beautiful photography, and a lot of food for thought.

It's beautiful, but nobody involved was ever sure what the movie was actually about, or why they were making it. full review

A spare, meditative and melancholy film. full review

Spanish director Isabel Coixet displays what is almost reverence for the material. You can imagine her whispering on the set. She brings out the absolute best in her top-notch cast. full review

A windbaggy film of Phillip Roth's novella The Dying Animal. full review