Raven Snook Time Out Aug 16, 2007

Instead of trying to provide insight into this genius's debilitating madness, Davis prefers to wallow in incoherent and clichd misery, punctuated by poetically oblique imagery.

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Jeffrey Gantz Boston Phoenix Oct 29, 2005 0/4

Just another artistic sacrifice to life's ironies, cruelties, and bad filmmakers.

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Rex Reed Observer Jul 7, 2005

A film of vitality, with imagery as haunting and romantic as it is intense.

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Luke Y. Thompson New Times Jul 7, 2005

No one expected a documentary, but serious art-history students may feel let down.

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Ken Fox TV Guide Jul 1, 2005 2/5

The real-life Modigliani did indeed live a short, tragic life, but this factually inaccurate, plodding film makes it feel twice as long.

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Lisa Rose Newark Star-Ledger Jul 1, 2005 1.5/4

Modigliani is slow, shamefully cliched and disjointed as a cubist portrait.

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Kyle Smith New York Post Jul 1, 2005 1/4

Thanks to writer-director Mick Davis, the film, like its subject, dies young.

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Jami Bernard New York Daily News Jul 1, 2005 1.5/4

It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously, right down to the undisguised streetwise-American accent of Andy Garcia as the Italian Jew Amedeo Modigliani.

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Stephen Holden New York Times Jun 30, 2005 1/5

The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist.

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Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine Jun 28, 2005 1.5/4

It ain't pretty but you have a choisa: See Modigliani or rent Derek Jarman's Caravaggio instead.

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R. Emmet Sweeney Village Voice Jun 28, 2005

Sadly, instead of situating the l'amour fou in the artistic ferment of the period (1917-1920), Davis twists the period to fit the story.

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Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly May 19, 2005 C-

It is a tidy stack of snapshots, unencumbered by a point of view.

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Bob Strauss Los Angeles Daily News May 13, 2005 2/4

Director Mick Davis shows little if any imagination in presenting the troubled genius or the remarkable Montparnasse art scene of the World War I era, and that's the real bummer.

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Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times May 12, 2005

Modigliani may have been noted for his drunken volatility and arrogance, but once you get a dozen years or so of Behind the Musics and E! True Hollywood Stories behind you, it's hard to get worked up about that sort of thing anymore.

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Kim Morgan L.A. Weekly May 12, 2005

Mick Davis' prosaic art biopic Modigliani is a tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk.

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Matt McKillop Filmcritic.com May 11, 2005 2.5/5

Modigliani's problems lie in its contentment with superficial clichs

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Jules Brenner Cinema Signals May 4, 2005 3/5

A third of it is an episodically disordered string of scenes that coalesce into a narrative. The remaining two thirds is melodrama.

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Shlomo Schwartzberg Boxoffice Magazine Feb 20, 2005 2/5

Zylberstein aside, the film rarely comes to life.

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Marta Barber Miami Herald Feb 4, 2005 1.5/4

Despite some nice shots of scenes converting into well-known art, Modigliani is plainly, badly directed.

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Phoebe Flowers South Florida Sun-Sentinel Feb 3, 2005 1/4

A fantastic reminder that the only thing worse than a bad movie is a bad, pretentious movie.

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