American Beauty (1999) Critic Reviews
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Spacey is diamond-brilliant in a role that plays as if custom-made for him.Read the full review
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
Spacey, an actor who embodies intelligence in his eyes and voice, is the right choice for Lester Burnham.Read the full review
A triumph of acting, writing and directing that defies glib description...the kind of artful defiance that Hollywood is usually too timid to deliver: a jolting comedy that makes you laugh till it hurts.Read the full review
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
If you don't share the film's piercing vision of what really matters, someday you will.Read the full review
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
A script as fresh and distinctive as any produced in the States in recent memory.Read the full review
Hilarious, painful and brutally frank.Read the full review
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
