Sju år i Tibet

Seven Years in Tibet

Thewlis brings to the role of second bratwurst a gentle steadiness that was probably what His Holiness was trying to inspire in the handsome Nazi tutor all along.

Generally it looks great and works well, and while dramatically it may be iffy, it's ultimately moving all the same.

...is an ambitious and beautiful movie with much to interest the patient viewer...

...this visually sumptuous epic is the very definition of a prestige production, swaddled in good taste and betterintentions.