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Evita

Evita (1996)

tomatometer

57

Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3

No consensus yet.

audience

65

liked it
Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 53,747

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Movie Info

Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue. "Evita" is the friendly, family version of the proper name "Eva," and this film tells the story of Eva Peron (1921-52), a woman whose name evokes powerful feelings in her native Argentina. Throughout this film, as in the musical, the story is explained and commented on by a character known as "Che," played here by Antonio Banderas. The film

PG,

Musical & Performing Arts, Drama

Alan Parker, Oliver Stone

Mar 24, 1998

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All Critics (59) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (14) | DVD (7)

A pretty much ideal big-screen adaptation of the material, which becomes convincingly cinematic. [Blu-ray]

July 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews
Groucho Reviews

Webber's music is hauntingly original and effective, while Rice's lyrics manage to convey the information that's missing without a standard narrative and scenic construction, while also incorporating a constant sense of interpretation.

June 25, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

At a time when songs showcased in movies were being shot as MTV music videos, leave it to director Alan Parker (The Commitments, Fame) to offer a full-blooded musical with epic elegance on its mind.

June 19, 2012 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

Madonna performs in bloated but stirring musical.

October 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

I doubt any director could have made a good movie from Andrew Lloyd Webber's baffling and shallow musical.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

It is quite possible to hate Cats and deplore Sex and still enjoy this movie.

January 8, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

What makes "Evita" so powerful is its ability to convey complex emotions through its music.

September 5, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight
Cinema Sight

Intolerable

June 7, 2003
Lawrence Journal-World

Audience Reviews for Evita

EVITA most certainly is not the best musical, but it has somewhat good acting, two great lead actors, and fantastic (I repeat: fantastic) music. For some strange reason, I think Madonna should have won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1996, because she did a splendid job performing as the title character, Eva Peron, a woman who has been poor as a little girl and, though also having experience as a prostitute, actress, and singer, inherits power over Argentina. EVITA, to compare with another Andrew Lloyd Weber silver screen adaptation, is a lot better than 2005's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. On the list of musicals that are likely to be remembered half a millennium from now, this is somewhere slightly below OLIVER!, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and just barely above RENT. It is one of those musicals that once you have heard the first sing, you are hooked until the very last song and are therefore stuck to the TV for two well-spent hours watching the point here the History Channel and Broadway meet.
July 22, 2011
spielberg00

Super Reviewer

This film includes the largest amount of costume changes in history, so you already know it's lavish. Taking all the leather and lace away from this production, you're left with no plot, all music, and two hours of watching Madonna spiral into an abysmal performance. Eva Peron, Evita to her people, deserved a bit more of a bang for her buck.
December 9, 2008
FrizzDrop

Super Reviewer

    1. Eva Peron: They actually called me a whore...
    – Submitted by Scott V (16 months ago)

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