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

  • 80
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    An effervescent entertainment that marks a welcome return for "Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" director Stephan Elliott after a nine-year absence. Read full review

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Jessica Biel has great fun with the American adventuress, while Kristin Scott Thomas is truly scary as her nemesis and mother-in-law. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    In its cold-eyed assessment of the English aristocracy Easy Virtue has none of the lurking Anglophilia found in Merchant-Ivory movies. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times |

    Elliott has created a wonderfully rich battle for propriety in Easy Virtue. The humor might sting, but the pain is worth the pleasure. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Gets better as it goes along. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Director Stephan Elliott uncorks a rare vintage of laughs tinged with heartache. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The dialogue has an edgy wit, although it has no ambitions to be falling-down funny. Here is the Odd Couple formula applied in a specific time and place that make them feel very odd indeed. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    It's a pleasure to watch such top-notch actors deliver Coward's sparkling wit. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The picture itself is only mechanically breezy. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post |

    Blame the wafer-thin adaptation by Sheridan Jobbins and director Stephan Elliott. What might've been a scrumptious, chocolatey dessert of a movie -- a Noel Coward delite -- is instead a scoop of lemon ice, not filling, faintly sweet and mostly water. Read full review

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