KlimtMovie Reviews

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

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Richard James Havis

    The result is a pleasingly discursive film that depicts Klimt and the ideals and locales of fin de siecle Vienna. Read full review

  • 50
    L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor

    Ruiz is so intent on harnessing the painter to his own -- here, rather arid -- relativism that he never manages to convey the unfettered eros that brings crowds flocking to exhibitions of Klimt's work, even as critics hold their noses. Read full review

  • 50
    TV Guide | Ken Fox

    Raoul Ruiz's absurdly overwrought phantasmagoria tries to recast the notorious Viennese artist's life as a kind of Divine Comedy: Inferno. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    The shortened version is lovely to look at, but the stilted dialogue and crude overdubbing in scenes where English is not spoken often make it an impenetrable hodgepodge. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Klimt comes alive only fitfully at best, and it seems that for those occasional moments when it comes into focus there is an equal number that are merely silly. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety |

    Billed as a phantasmagoria rather than a biopic, Klimt falls into the philosophical conundrum it attempts to resurrect -- whether portrait and allegory can coexist. Notwithstanding moments of great beauty, in this case the answer is clearly "no." Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    A good bio of any historical character has to have a compelling story, whether evil or good. Klimt appears to have had that story. I sure would have liked to know what it was. Read full review

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