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Frida (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...an amazing movie..." more... A- Boxoffice Magazine Annlee Ellingson "...masterful..." more... A- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...jammed with incident and anecdote..." more... A- Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "Whatever its flaws, Frida is a movie that seizes you up, catches fire and dances." more... A- Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "...a luminescent homage to love and art." more... A- E! Online "... Hayek never paints the portrait of the artist as clearly as, say, Ed Harris did for Pollock." more... B- filmcritic.com Aaron Lazenby "...Frida's failings are ultimately a result of what makes the film successful." more... B   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "...a fairly convention biopic rather than the artistic statement one might anticipate..." more... C   Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis "...fails to get at the ferocity of the artist and her artifice..." more... C   New York Post Jonathan Foreman "Gorgeous tale of love and art." more... A- Reel.com Mary Kalin-Casey "...a superb portrait of both the artist and her work." more... A- ReelViews James Berardinelli "...disappointingly superficial..." more... C+ Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...hamstrung by a script that seems determined to stop at all the big moments in Frida's life without giving anything time to resonate." more... C   San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann "...a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches." more... C+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...perhaps not since Lust for Life has a biopic so imaginatively captured the particular agony and ecstasy of an artist's career..." more... B+ Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez "...risk-free, straightforward..." more... B- USA Today Claudia Puig "...doesn't give us much more insight into the enigmatic artist's psyche than what pop culture has already provided." more... B- * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)