Stage Beauty (2004)
Critic Reviews
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The Hollywood Reporter
Those who thought "Shakespeare In Love" was as good as it gets in intelligent costume romantic comedy will find that director Richard Eyre and writer Jeffrey Hatcher have taken the form to a higher level.
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80
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Variety David Rooney
This skillfully acted, handsomely crafted frock piece toys cleverly with gender confusion and sexual identity.
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80
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Empire Alan Morrison
A film that, despite being about theatre itself, is remarkably cinematic and entirely unafraid to revel in the English language.
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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Expertly directed by Richard Eyre (Iris) from Jeffrey Hatcher's play, the film is bawdy fun.
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70
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Newsweek David Ansen
It's a marvelous premise, and Crudup's serpentine performance has a venomous grace. But Jeffrey Hatcher's screenplay too often sacrifices psychological insight for bogus theatricality.
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70
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New York Magazine (Vulture) Peter Rainer
Crudup, whose features have the appropriate delicacy, plays Ned with complete conviction; it’s difficult to imagine anyone else succeeding as well.
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63
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
For every thing that Stage Beauty does right, it fumbles at least one other element, resulting in a movie-going experience that is of the glass half-full/half-empty variety.
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58
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A celebration of the theater that tends to drag the moment it's out of drag.
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40
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The New Yorker David Denby
Second-rate bawdiness--that is, bawdiness without the wit of Boccaccio or Shakespeare or even Tom Stoppard--is more infantile than funny, and I’m not sure that the American playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, who concocted this piece for the stage and then adapted it into a movie, is even second-rate.
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Village Voice Jessica Winter
Most frustrating, Stage Beauty fumbles XX/XY politics at every turn.
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