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

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Now that she's past 50, can we all stop holding Michelle Pfeiffer's looks against her and just admit that she's a great actress? Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The success of Stephen Frears' film Chri begins with its casting. Michelle Pfeiffer, as Lea de Lonval, is still a great beauty. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Pfeiffer transcends any hint of clich ''cougar'' voraciousness. Read full review

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Actors blossom under Frears' direction. There is no false moment or off-key note in this movie. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    With Pfeiffer, 50, radiating uncommon beauty, grace and feeling, Frears uncovers a fragile story's grieving heart. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Michelle Pfeiffer is back, and her reappearance in Cheri, her best role in quite some time, underlines not only how much she's been missed but also how much the world of film has lost by her absence. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Cheri, like the character, is an entertaining bauble without much on its mind. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post |

    Cheri looks terrific, if a bit gauzy at times, and Frears, who directed Pfeiffer in that other Frenchified frolic, "Dangerous Liaisons," is never at rest. Still, the movie bogs down by going nowhere other than inside its characters, who are intensely passionate but of an era more curious than emotionally relevant. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Like a passable bottle of champagne, Cheri fizzes and slides down quite easily but lacks real body and doesn't really hit the spot. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    There's something poignant about the image of this actress (Pfeiffer) sitting in a pool of sunlight without a smile or trace of visible makeup. But she's trying to reach a character that her director seems intent to keep from her grasp. Read full review

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