The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Reviews
Nick's Flick Picks
"There was no real Peter Sellers"... As a theme, it smells of the tired cop-out, somewhere in the same clubhouse of desiccated phrases as "I love you, but I'm not in love with you" and "In a crazy world, only the mad people are sane."
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| Original Score: C+
eFilmCritic.com
As a showcase for Geoffrey Rush, though, Life and Death is more than worthwhile.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Draxblog Movie Reviews
flawed but buscinating tribute
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| Original Score: 5/10
Film Snobs
A great impressionistic piece about an actor's fantasy becoming their reality. Director Hopkins really makes an exciting leap of faith.
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| Original Score: 3/5
FilmStew.com
The best biopic you're likely to see this year won't be coming to a theater near you.
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| Original Score: B+
Top CriticWe get movie scenes within movie scenes, and Rush as Sellers breaking character to become Sellers' mom or Edwards, commenting on Sellers, and it all draws too much attention to itself.
Urban Cinefile
In a brilliant portrayal by Geoffrey Rush, we are given a glimpse of the absurd, extravagant, surreal, lonely, tragic life of a comic genius.
Shadows on the Wall
If you have no knowledge of Peter Sellers' acting genius, it's difficult to engage with this artfully inventive biography.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Sustains interest most of the way, but combination of an unsympathetic central figure and patchy recreation of events involving numerous famous people makes for an ambitiously told life story that finally doesn't cut it.
While In Competition entry The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a wonderfully entertaining film, the one thing that's missing is Sellers' singular ability to be hilarious.
