Biutiful
Liddell Entertainment | Release Date: December 29, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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19
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11
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttDec 30, 2010
Biutiful has a strong, linear narrative drive. Nevertheless, and most of all, it's a gorgeous, melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and guilt. Read full review
90
Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondDec 22, 2010
Biutiful, which gets it name from a child's misspelling of the word, is in itself a beautiful, mesmerizing film and Iñárritu's masterpiece. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaFeb 3, 2011
Biutiful is strong stuff, it will leave you shaken. There's poetry here, and catastrophe. Read full review
88
USA TodayClaudia PuigJan 27, 2011
Bardem's soulful turn lends this haunting meditation a sense of hope and saves it from the contrived missteps it teeters toward. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJan 27, 2011
It's Bardem's portrayal of his search for those answers that drives Biutiful forward. Read full review
80
EmpireAndrew MaleJan 24, 2011
Iñárritu has made a modern classical tragedy and, in Javier Bardem, he has found his first authentic hero; a character caught up in an intricate web of events he cannot extricate himself from. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJan 28, 2011
As much as Bardem is an expressive instrument for parlaying Iñárritu's somber worldview, so too is cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, whose stunning compositions find the poetry amid the sorrow. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenFeb 11, 2011
In this vast balloon of a film, Bardem is the ballast – that Manichean face is a movie onto itself. Read full review
75
Washington PostSean O'ConnellJan 28, 2011
Biutiful soars to its highest points once it shifts its focus away from death to ask us how we are choosing to live our lives. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJan 27, 2011
Biutiful exists, at its best and beautifully, in that space that's hard to define, between the outside and the interior, action and thought, body and soul. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJan 26, 2011
Surely few actors have faces that project sorrow more completely than Bardem. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoDec 29, 2010
Set on the seamy side of Barcelona, Biutiful may not be a feel-good movie for this time of year, but it's well worth your time. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversDec 29, 2010
Shot hand-held with a poet's eye by Rodrigo Prieto, the film is relentless but as riveting as the world a remarkable actor lets us see through Uxbal's eyes. Bravo, Bardem. Read full review
70
MovielineStephanie ZacharekDec 29, 2010
Nothing says "Awards Season" like feel-bad cinema, and with Biutiful, Iñárritu hauls out the big guns. He also, maddeningly, has one hell of a weapon in his star, Javier Bardem. Read full review
70
TimeMary PolsDec 25, 2010
The hardest movies to review are the ones you respect and admire but don't love and also - and this is the crucial part - aren't angered by. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful is just that sort of film. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn LevyJan 27, 2011
Yet another, albeit sparer, Iñárritu gloom-fest. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsFeb 3, 2011
The saving grace of Biutiful is Bardem. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisJan 27, 2011
The movie wails in pain. And it's that sort of grand empathy that makes Iñárritu both impossible to dismiss and impossible to live with. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJan 27, 2011
The movie is unwieldy and overstuffed with subplots - and, at 2 1/2 hours, probably too much misery and sorrow for most viewers. Read full review
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