De-Lovely Critic Reviews

Turns out to be thoughtful, creative, and generally worthy of its subject, with sins that are more of ambition and miscalculation than of execution.Read the full review

A musical and a biography, and brings to both of those genres a worldly sophistication that is rare in the movies.Read the full review

De-Lovely is something dishy and rare: a biopic about a happy, and even enchanted, man. Read the full review

Something certainly blows here, but it isn't the archangel's horn. Read the full review

As a bio-pic, De-Lovely is pretty standard, run-of-the-mill stuff (albeit with an interesting framing device). However, as a "best hits" collection of Cole Porter's music, it is unparalleled. Read the full review

At its best, De-Lovely evokes a time, a place and a sound with stylish wit and sophistication. Read the full review

A mishmash of a musical. The movie never gels -- despite Kline's nuanced performance, the stars' exquisite period clothes, designed by Armani, and, of course, Porter's great songs. Read the full review

A sprightly musical revue built around Cole Porter songs and a few biographical tidbits culled from his extraordinary life. Read the full review

A movie so lifeless and drained of genuine joie de vivre it makes you long for the largely fictional earlier film.Read the full review