| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"Even if you are too old or too young to have been part of that soaring and sometimes silly '60s zeitgeist, Bertolucci's glimpse of those heady times is intoxicating." more... |
B+ |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...it's funny, affecting, interestingly twisted, and seriously erotic before it heads south in the final stretch." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"The film is extraordinarily beautiful. Bertolucci is one of the great painters of the screen." more... |
A |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...The Dreamers is ablaze with poetry and danger, and suffused with an odd kind of intellectual kitsch." more... |
A- |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"Bertolucci and screenwriter Gilbert Adair treat their young characters with compassion..." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"...ultimately it's not as meaningful as it would like to think it is." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Jean Oppenheimer |
"...the film's real failure is that neither the story nor the characters capture the zeitgeist that Bertolucci theoretically set out to celebrate." more... |
C |
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman |
"Embarrassing, self-indulgent bore." more... |
D |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting..." more... |
A- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...seduces with eroticism and resonates with ideas." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...an ambitious and exciting piece of work..." more... |
A- |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...a strangely thought-provoking and bittersweet ode to the '60s." more... |
B |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"...a letdown." more... |
C+ |
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