'Hemingway & Gellhorn': What the Critics Are Saying

But HBO's “Hemingway & Gellhorn” tries. Oh, how it tries. Kidman plays Martha Gellhorn, the pioneering war correspondent remembered mostly, if unfairly, for her brief battleground of a marriage to Ernest Hemingway, here portrayed by Clive Owen as an

When you consider the brief marriage of Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, it's exceedingly difficult to decide which of the two had the more impressive résumé in the field of maximal badassery. Hemingway protected

The five-time Cannes veteran looks to shake things up, participating in two provocative films, The Paperboy and Hemingway & Gellhorn. In Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, which opens in the USA later this year, Kidman brings serious screen heat as Charlotte

I think he met his match. He never met anyone like her.” Clive Owen says of Ernest Hemingway's third wife, Martha Gellhorn.

Not only is "Hemingway and Gellhorn" wretched, it is bathed in pretentiousness and pseudo-intellectual delusions of grandeur. It's not just crap, it's expensive, painfully "artistic" crap starring a lot of actors who should have known better once they