Queen Of The Desert (2015)

"There's no sense of danger, of texture, or even of a rudimentary idea of what's truly driving Gertrude Bell."

"Maybe the most dismayingly ordinary movie Herzog has ever made."

"Laughably hollow and inert."

"Slow-moving..."

"The main flaws... are a lurching narrative coupled with dialogue awkwardness, and a blase approach to Bell's motivations."

"Trudges ploddingly through melodrama."

"Nicole Kidman... supplies a gravitas and emotional complexity worthy of the woman she plays."

"(Queen of the Desert) is never able to communicate the complexity of the woman at its centre."

"A well-made invitation to nod off."

"A work that not only references the historical setting and panoramic desert compositions of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, but the refined desire and period elegance of the Merchant Ivory canon."