Cheri (2009) Critic Reviews

Now that she's past 50, can we all stop holding Michelle Pfeiffer's looks against her and just admit that she's a great actress?Read the full review

The success of Stephen Frears’ film Chéri begins with its casting. Michelle Pfeiffer, as Lea de Lonval, is still a great beauty.Read the full review

Pfeiffer transcends any hint of cliché ''cougar'' voraciousness.Read the full review

Actors blossom under Frears' direction. There is no false moment or off-key note in this movie.Read the full review

What makes Cheri’ worth your while is that its true subjects are women and age, and its observations apply to both 19th-century France and the modern film industry.Read the full review

With Pfeiffer, 50, radiating uncommon beauty, grace and feeling, Frears uncovers a fragile story's grieving heart.Read the full review

The film is a sumptuous, handsome portrait of a woman poised fearfully on the brink of decline, yet too proud to grab at rescue.Read the full review

A respectable and satisfying historical romantic melodrama.Read the full review

Michelle Pfeiffer is back, and her reappearance in Cheri, her best role in quite some time, underlines not only how much she's been missed but also how much the world of film has lost by her absence.Read the full review