
14. century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence which is considerable.... (Full plot summary below)
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14. century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence which is considerable.
Leave your thoughts about The Name of the Rose.
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt's really a decent exploitation film disguised as a proper art film. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseFor labyrinth-lovers...a thoughtful and entertaining murder mystery predicated on intellectual debate. [Blu-ray] |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxA well-played medieval murder mystery, featuring a lot of good-looking men with really bad haircuts. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordThe film’s packed with messages in invisible ink, secret staircases, and corpses in cauldrons of pig’s blood. And since ? Connery’s bald as a cue ball, that means no distracting Hanksian haircuts! |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA spiritual thriller that holds up thanks to its rich themes and great acting |
| The Film YapNick RogersUmberto Eco seems unduly dismissive of a film that had to excise his postmodern trappings and scholarly sidebars. But it hasn't just been stripped down to a tawdry whodunit. Here, albeit in a streamlined way, the whydunit matters as much, if not more. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenA little slow-moving but ultimately rewarding. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. PuccioHow you accept an English monk with a Scottish accent and the mind of a Sherlock Holmes is the question. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhat this movie needs is a clear, spare, logical screenplay. It's all inspiration and no discipline. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonYes, it is splendid that anyone would take on so formidable a project as Eco’s 500-page chambered nautilus of a novel. Yes, this certainly feels like a 14th-Century Italian abbey, bleak, drafty and forbidding. Yes, it looks like it too--the 14th-Century as cast by Federico Fellini, every face a grotesque. But no, sad to say, it isn’t a perfectly marvelous film. |