Alfie
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 5, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
14
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
This Alfie has been castrated. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
[Law] talks straight to the camera like the young Michael Caine, but this time our hunk has got zilch to say. That's because a bastard's candour is off-limits in today's politically correct market — it just wouldn't be polite. Read full review
33
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
While his star, Jude Law, is infectiously watchable, Shyer's version of the material is tone deaf and splotchy. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
There's nothing authentic about this London lad ... Nothing particularly likable either. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
This new Alfie is earnest -- irony is so last century -- and not angry at all, since working-class anger would mean nothing here, because class means nothing here. Nothing means anything here.
30
Washington PostSean Daly
Occasionally amusing, technically lovely but ultimately dated. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
More concerned with attitude than character and too moralistic to be much fun. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Shyer's version is a thing of infinite emptiness and nauseating vanity. It's not funny, alluring, affecting, or erotic, just conceited. Read full review
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