An Ideal Husband (1999) Critic Reviews

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Based upon 9 Critic Reviews
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Variety | Derek ElleyAdd Critic to Favorites

Shines like a freshly minted coin in Oliver Parker's adaptation.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites

Parker has shaped the play to make it more film-friendly and relevant, but he has done so with such subtlety you would have to be a Wilde authority even to notice.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

What shakes the dust off this period piece is the vibrant acting.Read the full review

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

Parker stays with and even streamlines Wilde's clever manipulations of betrayals and lies and plots and counterplots. Yet the film never feels stagy.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The two leading men, Northam and Everett, are smooth and charming.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

We are amused. We are not sputtering into our teacups, but we are chortling lightly.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

Life at the top has rarely looked or sounded more fabulously elegant.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie is diverting enough -- it's good fun -- but much of the genius is gone with the wind.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Edward GuthmannAdd Critic to Favorites

Director- writer Oliver Parker saps much of the juice from Wilde, slows the pace and directs his actors in an inappropriately naturalistic style.Read the full review

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