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67
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56
Critics' score based on 40 reviews.
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I didn't think I would like this film but, I did. If you don't like poetry though, then u will probably not like this film. It a biographical movie based upon poet Sylvia Plath.

December 13, 2009
Ms loralilee
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This is the richest role Paltrow has had since ''Shakespeare in Love,'' and she rises to the challenge. She digs deep into Plath's mercurial nature, giving us a Sylvia who's fiercely independent and alive yet burdened with demons of insecurity that bubble up in a rage.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Christine Jeffs's film is an emotionally rich biography of the poet Sylvia Plath, who is played with radiant conviction by Gwyneth Paltrow.Full Review

Dana Stevens
The New York Times

For those who have read the poets and are curious about their lives, Sylvia provides illustrations for the biographies we carry in our minds.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

At heart, Sylvia is constructed as a psychological suspense film framed around the ambiguities of Hughes's infidelity and Plath's resulting paranoia. So at its strangest, the movie is a potboiler. Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

Doesn't shed much light on the fragile and enigmatic writer whose myth has nearly obscured the real woman.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today
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