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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:34
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Audiences may attend to witness Peter O'Toole's Oscar-worthy performance, but they'll also be treated to a humane, tender exploration of maturing with both dignity and irreverence.
Theatrical Release:Dec 21, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $3,261,449
Synopsis: Screen legend Peter O'Toole stars in this moving story of an elderly actor and his somewhat questionable relationship with a teenage girl. Maurice (O'Toole) and his friend Ian (Leslie Phillips) are... [More]
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Jodie Whittaker, Leslie Phillips, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Roger Michell
Venus belongs to O'Toole. This is, hands down, my favorite performance of the year, largely because I love the way O'Toole (and the filmmakers) refuse to yield to the all-too-pervasive idea that it's 'icky' for old people to even think about sex.
Top CriticThe best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles, they say, and Peter O'Toole, 74, proves the point in Venus.
Top CriticVenus is a fine reminder of the wonders we're presented with every day.
Top CriticVenus is emotionally affecting, not because O'Toole's Maurice is coping with mortality, but because of the honest way he confronts it.
Top CriticBecause it's built around theater people, Kureishi's script offers ample opportunities for amusing repartee, and the performances are strong ...
Top CriticVenus succeeds because there is no hint of smugness in sight.
Top CriticThe film gives Mr. O'Toole all the space he needs to prove that his craft is still fresh and virile.
Top CriticWith his intelligent and soulful performance, O'Toole reminds us exactly why he has been nominated for eight Oscars.
Top CriticThe ruined beauty of Peter O'Toole permeates every frame of Venus, a movie that exists for almost no other reason than to allow us to worship at the altar of this incomparable actor.
Top CriticThe great thing about Venus -- apart from its sharp eye for the daily routines and drab details of senior citizenry in a buzzing metropolis -- is that it isn't soppy, or sentimental.
Top CriticThe suggestion that Peter O'Toole is playing some version of his real self in Venus adds a bittersweet poignancy to this quietly affecting British drama.
Top CriticVenus adheres to the general parameters of conventional Hollywood with such cheek, intelligence and sheer self-deprecating nastiness that it does more to redeem the fantasy than it does the selfish and vain old geezer who is its beneficiary.
Top CriticWith wonderful testaments like Lawrence, Lion and now Venus, O'Toole will always live on.
Top CriticAn edgily charming meditation about the mysteries of attraction.
Top CriticPeter O'Toole, still a British cinematic lion at 74, performs another movie miracle in the Roger Michell-Hanif Kureishi film Venus.
Top CriticVenus has a swank pedigree, but in this case that doesn't mean it's much more than a quaint machine to elicit tears and awards.
Top CriticIf indeed Venus is his swan song, it resounds with a sweetly magnificent melody. Don’t miss it.
Top CriticWhat a piece of work by Peter O’Toole.
Top CriticWhat makes this film the perfect career nightcap for Peter the great is the nimbus of rakish doom he has always cultivated.
Top CriticPeter O'Toole, looking frail beyond his 74 years, gives what may be his farewell performance as a leading movie actor in Roger Michell's Venus. It's one for the books -- and maybe the Oscars, too.
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