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Musical numbers save movie from cliches.
All Critics (155) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (81) | DVD (12)
There are enough glorious songs, energetically warbled by a host of modern pop stars, to keep us enthralled. Sep 14, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
There are enough glorious songs, energetically warbled by a host of modern pop stars, to keep us enthralled.
Neil Smith
The results ... are staid, with re-creations of Paris in the Jazz Age and Hollywood in its Golden Age that are like waxworks in motion. Aug 7, 2004
The results ... are staid, with re-creations of Paris in the Jazz Age and Hollywood in its Golden Age that are like waxworks in motion.
Peter Rainer
A wildly uneven musical biography of Cole Porter. Jul 22, 2004 | Rating: C+
A wildly uneven musical biography of Cole Porter.
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Porter's songs keep much the film afloat when, otherwise, it would have sunk. No matter how turgid or murky the movie becomes, when the music starts, you're flying. Jul 16, 2004 | Rating: 3/5
Porter's songs keep much the film afloat when, otherwise, it would have sunk. No matter how turgid or murky the movie becomes, when the music starts, you're flying.
Jay Boyar
Not inept enough to make the composer spin in his grave ... but not insightful or clever enough to please the old boy, either. Jul 16, 2004 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Not inept enough to make the composer spin in his grave ... but not insightful or clever enough to please the old boy, either.
Connie Ogle
Entertaining. With more than 30 Cole Porter songs and an accomplished cast, how can it not be? Jul 16, 2004 | Rating: B-
Entertaining. With more than 30 Cole Porter songs and an accomplished cast, how can it not be?
Eric Harrison
Unfortunately, the film's post-modern staginess assists in keeping Porter endlessly at arm's length. [Blu-ray] May 8, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, the film's post-modern staginess assists in keeping Porter endlessly at arm's length. [Blu-ray]
Peter Canavese
Winkler indulges a large amount of screentime detailing these sexual leanings and complications, which disrupts the picture's balance between wannabe musical and straight up bio-pic. May 3, 2011 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Winkler indulges a large amount of screentime detailing these sexual leanings and complications, which disrupts the picture's balance between wannabe musical and straight up bio-pic.
Brian Orndorf
The music is de-lovely, but not much else is. Dec 22, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The music is de-lovely, but not much else is.
Nell Minow
More imagination than inquiry, this cautiously reverential tale reaches for aesthetic pleasure and emotion over insight. May 24, 2007
More imagination than inquiry, this cautiously reverential tale reaches for aesthetic pleasure and emotion over insight.
Prairie Miller
If you ignore the plot and just approach the flick as nothing more than a 21st century update of a Busby Berkeley-style musical, you will not be disappointed. May 23, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
If you ignore the plot and just approach the flick as nothing more than a 21st century update of a Busby Berkeley-style musical, you will not be disappointed.
Kam Williams
Performances crackling with an enthusiasm that indicates how much Porter's work continues to be loved and respected. Sep 22, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4
Performances crackling with an enthusiasm that indicates how much Porter's work continues to be loved and respected.
Lisa Ann Cockrel
Nice movie....
Super Reviewer
The music, so vividly emphasized, made this film more of a musical in itself than a biopic of Cole Porter, a man whose life was riddled with rumors, infidelities, and the his love for his soulmate, Linda. In short, it was almost a musical written by Oscar Wilde.
The acting and music are really good, but focuses way too much on his homosexual interests and weird-as-hell personal life. God bless Ashley Judd.
A sad movie. Not my favorite type of music. It's well acted by Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd.
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