Pretty Woman Reviews

The movie is a fairy tale, more about American consumerism than a reformed prostitute, but it's worth seeing for Julia Roberts charismatic performance.

Full Review | Original Score: B

It's all fairly unconvincing - but its heart is roughly in the right place.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Takes the Disney princess and puts her in the real world, creating a chick flick with a little bit of edge, a whole lot of heart and and even more chemistry between the film's two leads.

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Believing in love is swell and all, but maybe we're better off not buying the brand Pretty Woman is selling. [Blu-ray]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The movie itself, a modern update of the Cinderella story, is as contrived as you get--isn't that not-so-secretly what we want?--but at no point is Roberts' performance

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

This is old-fashioned, assembly-line moviemaking without the old panache.

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Against all odds, the presence of the incomparable Julia Roberts makes this a damn enjoyable career-defining film for Garry Marshall, and a guilty pleasure for movie lovers.

Full Review | Original Score: 75/100

Gere and Roberts do good work, but this feelgood fantasy is laced with some preposterous messages about love, success and money.

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Pic's casting is astute, with Gere underplaying like a sturdy ballet star who hoists the ballerina Roberts on his shoulders.

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Bound to offend prostitutes and millionaires everywhere, this flick is not the street-smart Pygmalion it desperately wants to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Low on real social comment, this modern fable still has more than enough chemistry between its leading pair to rake in the box-office rewards.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It's saying Roberts' character becomes a better person when she lands a rich guy and learns to cry at the opera.

Full Review | Original Score: D

He pays her $3,000 and they fall in love -- ain't Hollywood grand?

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For a film that attempts to satirise snooty materialism, it focuses too pantingly on the designer labels, and comes down firmly on the side of 'rich is better'.

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Director Garry Marshall somehow lucked into a hit despite his oppressive 125-minute running time and excessive schmaltz.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Plenty sappy and unrealistic but also a funny and dysfunctionally romantic charmer.

| Original Score: B+

I've always loved this film, even though it is a class-A chick flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Gere and Roberts click as "John" and call girl destined for more romantic things.

| Original Score: 4/5

As formulaic and push-button-y as it is, it still houses some truly enjoyable movie-star chemistry,

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

An emotionally appealing film that taps into our primal feelings about money, power, pleasure, shame, intimacy, and love as a redemptive power.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5