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Shines like a freshly minted coin in Oliver Parker's adaptation.Full Review

Derek Elley
Variety

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.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

What shakes the dust off this period piece is the vibrant acting.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

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

Stephen Hunter
Washington Post

It all seems calculated to churn up excitement, a promise that there's lots of dazzle, glamour and intrigue to come. An Ideal Husband actually does deliver all those things, but mostly in a pleasurably understated way -- no need for the noisy signals.Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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