Kelly Jane Torrance Washington Times Dec 7, 2018 2.5/4

Matthew McNulty is commanding as Bunuel, but the sensitive Javier Beltran consistently steals the show as the tormented Lorca.

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Laremy Legel Film.com May 6, 2011 D

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George Palathingal Sydney Morning Herald Mar 25, 2010 2/5

It feels as though Morrison and Goslett are trying too hard to emulate the work of their subjects.

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Philippa Hawker The Age (Australia) Mar 25, 2010 2/5

The drawcard of Robert ''Twilight'' Pattinson as Dali is a mixed blessing for the filmmakers, given how ill-at-ease he is in the role. Javier Beltran, as Garcia Lorca, cast as the heroic centre of the film, cuts a more confident figure.

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Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile Mar 18, 2010

A snapshot of an insight into the life of Salvador Dali, one of the most complex artists in history and it intensifies rather than satisfies our curiosity about him

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John A. Nesbit Old School Reviews Sep 16, 2009 D+

limps along about as lifelessly as one of Dali's melting clocks

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Jeff Vice Deseret News (Salt Lake City) Sep 3, 2009

Beltran tries to give this flimsy nonsense some weight, but Brits McNulty and Pattinson's attempts at a Spanish accent are woeful.

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Jimmy O Film Snobs Aug 10, 2009 1.5/5

A Pretentious Mess of a Bio-pic In the Worst Sense of the Phrase.

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Michael Sragow Baltimore Sun Aug 7, 2009 2/4

The movie commits the error of scanting their cultural importance and fixating on Lorca's semi-requited love for Dali.

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Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Aug 7, 2009 1.5/5

Sexual repression claims yet one more victim.

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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 26, 2009 2.5/4

A bravely earnest and gauzy bit of biography.

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Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Jun 17, 2009 C-

A dry, dull retelling of a typical gay coming-of-age tale that's invigorated by neither the period backdrop nor the fact that the characters were real people.

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Jun 5, 2009 1/4

The movie, with its badly painted backdrops, its stiff acting and its complete lack of dramatic momentum, is embarrassing to watch.

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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post May 29, 2009

Beltran, for his part, makes a solidly believable Garcia Lorca. The problem is with the man with whom he's obsessed. In Pattinson's performance, we never see what Garcia Lorca sees in Dali.

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Joe Williams St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 28, 2009 2.5/4

Little Ashes is stylish enough to beguile and bold enough to provoke, but it's not bright enough to illuminate.

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Greg Quill Toronto Star May 22, 2009 2/4

Even cinematographer Adam Suschitzky's richly textured and resonantly toned cityscapes and rural scenes can't make up for a flawed script and weak performances in what might have been a powerful historical drama.

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Stan Hall Oregonian May 22, 2009

While it eventually improves, the first quarter-hour of Paul Morrison's drama about the youthful exploits of Spanish artists Salvador Dali, Frederico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunuel is cringe-worthy.

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Ty Burr Boston Globe May 21, 2009 1.5/4

What's intended to be a daring look at repressed sexuality, three-ways and all, has the dramatic heft of a true-love comic book.

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Rick Mele AskMen.com May 21, 2009 22/100

An intriguing and muddled relationship between three brilliant artists is downgraded into a tedious and lurid art-world soap opera full of convoluted love triangles.

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Richard Knight Windy City Times May 15, 2009

A pleasurable, old fashioned gay romance with a good measure of art and politics tossed in between the passion.

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