Entertainment | Halle Berry Del Toro's Good; Berry's on Fire Tearjerker garners mixed reviews By Sam Gale Rosen Posted Oct 19, 2007 10:15 AM CDT Copied Actors Halle Berry, left, and Benicio Del Toro attend a Cinema Society hosted screening of "Things We Lost In The Fire", Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) (Associated Press) Things We Lost in the Fire, the weepie opening today and starring Halle Berry as a newly bereaved widow and Benicio Del Toro as her heroin-addicted comforter, draws mixed reviews. Most agree with the Chicago Tribune that it's "consistently well acted," awarding special praise to Del Toro. But the movie gets no points for originality. Stephen Holden of the Times calls it "someone’s misbegotten notion of an upscale art film with commercial appeal." Many reviews hit on the same nagging problems: Berry's ex (David Duchovny) is too saintly, Del Toro is just a little too twitchy, and Berry's hotness is a distraction. "The camera lingers so long and lusciously on its lead actress’s perfect little pores that it quickly starts to resemble a Neutrogena commercial," snipes LA Weekly. Read These Next A former NFL Pro Bowler has died at age 36. Major websites, apps affected by massive outage. Secret Service finds something strange pointed at Trump's plane. The massive AWS failure exposed a big problem with the internet. Report an error