Ritchie made a movie that never pretends to be more than a guilty pleasure of soft-core kitsch, and Madonna and Giannini (son of Giancarlo, costar of the original) achieve a lively S&M chemistry.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
At its best, Swept Away is like a scrapbook of postcards starring two lovebirds with great tans.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
A bad movie. No amount of perfume sprayed on talk show audiences by Madonna and her husband can eliminate the stench of failure emanating from this motion picture.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Manohla Dargis
Madonna may be better in this film than she's been in some of her recent endeavors, especially when she stops screeching her lines, but she's done herself no favors with her choice of material.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
For starters, it blows. Madonna continues to mistake a knack for striking poses with the interpretive skill of a real actor.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
A deserted island movie during which I desperately wished the characters had chosen one movie to take along if they were stranded on a deserted island, and were showing it to us instead of this one.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
At no point should anyone mistake this for an actual movie. This is an extended beach video that will leave no one swept away.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Merely an indulgent vehicle for Mrs. Ritchie -- and Madonna is so spectacularly convincing as a hateful, self-absorbed, nouveau riche ogress that her character's third-act transformation is as preposterous as her overmuscled physique.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
There is no credible feeling here, no comedy, no eroticism.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: Jeff Giles
It stinks. The movie is so inert -- and Madonna’s performance so starkly amateurish -- that it’s impossible to take it seriously as an allegory about class and gender.Read Full Review »
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