Stealing Beauty 1996

Critics score:
53 / 100

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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A civilized, mellow, and generally graceful chamber piece. Read more

Jack Mathews, Los Angeles Times: Even a lesser Bertolucci is an event, and Stealing Beauty has its charms. Read more

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: For all the film's missteps, there is cause to echo the uncritical compliment bestowed by the playwright (Jeremy Irons) upon the film's ingenue (Liv Tyler): 'I so enjoyed watching you.' Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: What do you call a character study with shallow, sketchily-drawn characters, but a gorgeous setting? A scenery study, perhaps. Or an atmosphere study. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie plays like the kind of line a rich older guy would lay on a teenage model, suppressing his own intelligence and irony in order to spread out before her the wonderful world he would like to give her as a gift. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: [Bertolucci] builds an homage to beauty around a sullen void. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A welcome reminder of Bertolucci's directorial assurance. Read more

David Rooney, Variety: Read more

Washington Post: Read more