American Beauty Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

Spacey is diamond-brilliant in a role that plays as if custom-made for him.Read the full review

USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

A singular accomplishment so specifically keyed to Spacey's talents that it mandates going out on a limb to say it contains the performance that will ultimately be regarded as "the one."Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Spacey, an actor who embodies intelligence in his eyes and voice, is the right choice for Lester Burnham.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Edward GuthmannAdd Critic to Favorites

A wonder of a film -- a luminous, beautifully executed drama that gathers the best cast of the year -- the best American film of the year.Read the full review

The New York Times | Janet MaslinAdd Critic to Favorites

If you don't share the film's piercing vision of what really matters, someday you will.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

A blood-chilling dark comedy with unexpected moments of both fury and warmth, a strange, brooding and very accomplished film that sets us back on our heels from its opening frames.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

A script as fresh and distinctive as any produced in the States in recent memory.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Hilarious, painful and brutally frank.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

You know you're in the hands of a true filmmaker when you feel invited, at every turn, to share his sense of entrancement. I got that feeling in just about every frame of American Beauty.Read the full review

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