Beloved
Sundance Selects | Release Date: August 17, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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8
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6
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 30, 2012
Beloved spans 45 years, shifting from Paris to Prague to London to Montreal, and it boasts an especially strong performance by Paul Schneider. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid HughesAug 4, 2012
Christophe Honoré goes epic in a tale of interlocking lives that owes a debt to Jacques Demy. It won't be to everyone's taste but it's playful enough to win us over. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSep 6, 2012
By the time it glides -- not lumbers -- to the closing credits, it's also amazingly moving. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 16, 2012
It's as if he has been trying to express something, or to make his own particular kind of good movie, for 10 whole years. Now he has. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnAug 16, 2012
Beloved never really earns its sprawling timeline, eventually getting bogged down with too many developments and overstaying its welcome. For a movie where people intermittently burst into song, the plot is oddly one-note. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreAug 15, 2012
Honoré's combination of contemporary romantic hijinks and the stylization inherent in the musical genre aren't juxtaposed ironically: Beloved is a tenderly sincere musical that celebrates love even as it acknowledges the ways in which it can sometimes lead to tragedy. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 16, 2012
Beloved is at once whimsical and heartfelt, alive to the absurdity and perversity of amorous behavior and also to the gravity and intensity of human emotions. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrSep 13, 2012
At 40, Mastroianni is looking more and more like her father, Marcello Mastroianni. She has his eyes and that air of existential befuddlement, and she's beginning to suggest the magnificent ruin he became in his later career. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 4, 2012
The movie is at its lightest, most charming and most persuasive in the 60s; as it approaches the present, something inescapably preposterous weighs it down, though Honoré carries it off with some flair. Read full review
60
Total FilmTom DawsonAug 4, 2012
Alex Beaupain's songs effectively convey emotion, but Beloved doesn't scale the heights of the Truffaut and Demy films it pastiches. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSep 12, 2012
Beloved evokes some of the fine moments in the careers of Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni, but it doesn't re-create them. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJesse CataldoAug 14, 2012
Ultimately crammed at a frustrating juncture between period-piece froth and seriously conceived drama, never tipping its hand toward either. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAug 16, 2012
Long before your 140 minutes are up, you may wish you went to see "Sparkle" instead. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearAug 14, 2012
Even with Gallic neomusical royalty like Catherine Deneuve joining in the fray, the whole endeavor reeks of the filmmaker throwing everything against the wall yet barely making anything stick. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonAug 14, 2012
A sprawling mess of multiple romantic triangles in which all the angles are obtuse. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithAug 17, 2012
Dire musical interludes are sprinkled throughout the sprawling mess Beloved, an uninvolving would-be romantic epic that spans 45 years in the life of a mother and her daughter, starting in the early 1960s. Read full review
25
The PlaylistJames RocchiAug 15, 2012
Honoré's made better films, and he'll make better films again; the most damning thing you can say about this one isn't that it feels like Honore doing a third-rate imitation of Francois Ozon ("Potiche," "8 Women"), but rather that it often feels like Honoré doing a third-rate imitation of himself. Read full review
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