Somerset Maugham tale; that wouldn't be so bad if well done, but it emerges as neither film nor novel. From almost any standpoint, The Painted Veil is a bad picture. It’s clumsy, dull and long ...

Rated PG. What makes a marriage? That’s the principal and quietly profound question behind The Painted Veil, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s book of the same name. Despite the tale’s majestic ...