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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    All in all, A Good Woman retains ye olde Wilde's zing, his sense of pace and place, but most of all his snappy one-liners, and it finds a new way to showcase them brilliantly. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    For the most part, Wilde's sophisticated, sardonic dialogue has been capably adapted by screenwriter Howard Himelstein and director Mike Barker. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Hunt's flat delivery is mercilessly cruel to Wilde's delicious epigrams. That sound you hear is Oscar spinning madly in his grave. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    A Good Woman is pretty to look at and fakes witty elegance passably, so consider it a diversion -- a movie that might have been in the Oscar race if the elements had jelled but has instead been properly hung out to dry in February. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Something is wrong with A Good Woman: The lightning never strikes. It's never quite alive. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    The film is well intentioned and mildly diverting, but in attempting to modernize its story it has lost many of the things that make the original so memorable and not gained much in return. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    When put into the mouths of American actors with no feel for Wilde's high-toned repartee, they simply hang in the air and die. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    While screenwriter Howard Himelstein and director Mike Barker have done a workable job of drawing the Wilde social satire out of the drawing room, the film never quite manages to travel at the same buoyant velocity as the acerbic wit. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Has a script that plays more like a period romancer studded with occasional Wilde-isms and gets uneven treatment from a mixed Anglo-American cast. Read full review

  • 33
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    British director Mike Barker and magpie New York screenwriter Howard Himelstein, have taken "Lady Windermere's Fan" - Wilde's first big stage success, written in 1892 - and pulped it senseless in the name of puttin' on the charm. Read full review

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