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

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie has a sweetness and tenderness for these characters, poor lambs, blissfully unaware that they're about to be flattened by World War II. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times |

    As faithful to the spirit of the novel, and the era that inspired it, as a movie could be yet still feel as fresh as Paris Hilton dish on Page Six. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Waugh's dialogue, effortlessly catching the lockjaw intonations and facetious mannerisms of the British aristocracy between the world wars, is a gift to screenwriters and performers alike. The actors Mr. Fry has assembled receive the gift with gusto and grace. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Carla Meyer

    A witty, energetic adaptation. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Both script and direction are the work of the glittering comedic polymath Stephen Fry. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Engaging, energetic film. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    By the time Fry lets darkness encroach on these bright young things, the fizz is gone, and so is any reason to make us give a damn. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Derek Elley

    An easy-to-digest slice of literate entertainment for upscale and older audiences that lacks a significant emotional undertow to make it a truly involving -- rather than simply voyeuristic -- experience. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Noisy and giddy, the film makes a stab at "Moulin Rouge" territory but ends up as a very trite story of boy loses girl, boy finds girl. It is also stridently camp -- not so much roaring '20s as screaming. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    The movie, alas, is shackled somewhat by Waugh's original, pedestrian plot, which is too full of discrete incidents and slow to form an overarching story. Read full review

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