Bee Season

I saw this movie right before I went to a spelling bee and I was bored out of my brain. I could not understand the meaning of the story and it did not have seqence to the body of the story.... Full review

I saw this movie right before I went to a spelling bee and I was bored out of my brain. I could not understand the meaning of the story and it did not have seqence to the body of the story.... Full review

What a huge steaming pile of dog feces this movie is. I just watched it with my family and feel as though 2 hours have stolen from my life and 4 dollars from my wallet for the rental. PLEASE don't waste... Full review

What a huge steaming pile of dog feces this movie is. I just watched it with my family and feel as though 2 hours have stolen from my life and 4 dollars from my wallet for the rental. PLEASE don't waste... Full review

this movie was AWESOME. I loved it. It had tons and tons of drama and twists and everything just flowed so naturally. It was definitely one of the BEST movies of the year.... Full review

Ok by reading the back of the movie it sounds like a girl who is in a spelling bee and her dad decides to help her out. But instead you get a kleptomaniac mother who breaks into peoples houses. (they don't... Full review

About the dark and the light in the serious search for god. A reminder that we get so engrossed in our own little movies that we forget about the absolute light coming from the projector. Richard Gere is great in playing... Full review

About the dark and the light in the serious search for god. A reminder that we get so engrossed in our own little movies that we forget about the absolute light coming from the projector. Richard Gere is great in playing... Full review

Bee Season is an incoherent mishap with too many stories to follow that in the end makes the film go sidetrack into dissapointment.... Full review

I didn't realize I was sitting down to watch a propaganda film on Kabbalah. (Spoiler?) The main character (the young girl) actually goes through some sort of transcendental seizure as part of the climax of the film. Madonna would be proud.... Full review

What a great movie. Great movie, picture, sound and extras. Bee Season " sneaks up on you starting as a family drama and tells that story in the guise of a religious thriller. ... Full Review

Aaron's shift is the film's least convincing.....Suffused with loss and longing, Bee Season is often graceful and moving.....Aaron's drawn to this particular exploration by sunshiney Bosworth makes the plot seem less sincere than arch..... ... Full Review

However thrilling and superbly paced that film was, it holds little to the poignant mystery and beauty of Bee Season . And while Gere, Binoche, and Minghella all put forward strong, detailed performances, its ultimately Flora Cross who steals the show with unearthly maturity and grace. ... Full Review

Suffused with loss and longing, Bee Season is often, in single scenes, delicate and moving.....Alternately lyrical and frustrating, the movie depends too much on contrivances, stereotypes, and very slow-on-the-uptake parents and partners.....Aaron's drawn to this particular exploration by sunshiney Bosworth makes the plot seem less sincere than arch.....Again, the movie's effort to make visual this transition and struggle is clever but also heavy-handed:.... ... Full Review

Well, the film is beautifully shot by Giles Nuttgens, with the San Francisco locations looking gorgeous. The relationship between Eliza and Aaron is believably sketched and I appreciate the filmmakers trying to put across Aaron's exploration of the Buddhist faith as youthful rebellion, but it rings false, as does his chance meeting of the mysterious Chali (Kate Bosworth) in a city park. ... Full Review

I find myself completely out of energy this week, and I'm not entirely sure why. It may be because I'm giving some extra effort at work for no apparent reason, or maybe it's this damn time change screwing with my... ... Full Article

ComingSoon.net has learned from filmmakers Scott McGehee and Dave Siegel ( The Deep End , Bee Season ) that they are currently working on an adaptation of The Alchemist , Paulo Coelho's bestselling adventure novel about an Andalusian shepherd boy... ... Full Article

Anyone decrying the death of books has only to check out the music world to see that literature is still alive and kicking, even if the authors of said work aren't. ... Full Article

A time will come when May's most anticipated competition isn't the NBA playoffs, the Kentucky Derby or the American Idol finale. Instead, we'll be swept up in spelling-bee mania. ... Full Article

Window boxes galore: a bonus of having your home used for a film shoot is the free makeover it might get. There's been a glut of movies shot in the Bay Area recently. ... Full Article

Although Myla Goldberg's Bee Season and the film adaptation of her novel both follow the protagonist, Eliza Naumann, in her journey through Jewish mysticism and spelling bees, the two works differ significantly with regard to the family dynamic as a... ... Full Article