an uncredited, equally macho and over the top Robert Duvall is a highlight of the film. Anyone with a romantic appreciation of the male gender will swoon at Owen's constantly revealed chest hair. Everyone else can worship, as Kaufman's camera does, at the altar of Kidman's lower body, with its "legs that start at her shoulders." The New York Times panned the film, characterizing it as "a disheartening misfire: a big, bland historical melodrama built on platitudes about honor and the writing life that crams in actual figures and incidents but does little to illuminate them, or to make us care about the romance at its center." In a similar vein Vanity Fair observed that "none of the reviews quite prepared me for the unchained malady of Hemingway & Gellhorn." Of the director they say "it’s as if Kaufman answered the call of wild and it turned out to be a loon." The Huffington Post described it as "a gigantic missed opportunity, a jaw-droppingly trying waste of time. Don't let the fancy names in the cast fool you: This is a stupid, stupid movie." Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 49% score based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 5.33/10. Accolades References External links 2010s English-language films Films directed by Philip Kaufman Films set in the 1930s Films set in the 1940s Films shot in San Francisco Films set in Cuba Films set in Spain Spanish Civil War films HBO Films films Films with screenplays by Jerry Stahl Works about Ernest Hemingway Cultural depictions of Ernest Hemingway Cultural depictions of Chiang Kai-shek Cultural depictions of Orson Welles 2012 television films 2012 films Films scored by Javier Navarrete