Breakfast at Tiffany's
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 5, 1961 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
BBCAlmar Haflidason
Woven into this heady romance is chic Hollywood comedy at it's finest, combined with evocative cinematography. Read full review
100
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Hepburn brings Truman Capote's Holly Golightly to vivid life. [Review of re-release] Read full review
100
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
One of the great New York films, swathing the city in a layers of dewy love and glossy chic. [Review of re-release] Read full review
90
VarietyLarry Tubelle
Out of the elusive, but curiously intoxicating Truman Capote fiction, scenarist George Axelrod has developed a surprisingly moving film, touched up into a stunningly visual motion picture. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineEric Henderson
Blake Edwards’s discontent-but-charmed portrait of a long-lost New York state of blithe is, like most Blake Edwards films, narratively scattershot but reliably fixated on the cinematic chemistry of social relations in a mod (and post-mod) era, which invariably boil down to genders and the extent to which individuals ascribe to their assigned sex roles. Read full review
80
Total FilmNeil Smith
Breakfast At Tiffany's still exerts an enduring charm, not least because of the poise and waif-like beauty of the bewitching Hepburn. [Review of re-release] Read full review
80
EmpireEmma Cochrane
Audrey Hepburn is delicious as Holly and the Henry Mancini score is in the class of elite soundtracks. [Review of re-release] Read full review
80
The New York TimesA. H. Weiler
Like that storied novella by Truman Capote from which it stems, it is a completely unbelievable but wholly captivating flight into fancy composed of unequal dollops of comedy, romance, poignancy, funny colloquialisms and Manhattan's swankiest East Side areas captured in the loveliest of colors. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The film has more charm than the average romantic comedy, but, when considered from a bare-bones perspective, it follows most of the rules that define the genre. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJames Powers
Edwards’ direction is smart; he has a way with fashionable comedy. Axelrod’s treatment of the Capote story is convincing in the changes it has made although some of his devices are disappointing, being overly familiar. The script is not altogether neat. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
The movie still looks very good, and you'd need a heart of stone not to love the cat. [Review of re-release] Read full review
60
Time OutCath Clarke
Now Breakfast at Tiffany’s is iconic in fashion circles and Holly Golightly seen as a proto-Carrie Bradshaw – a trailblazer for women who use their ovens for shoe storage. Re-released by the BFI, it’s as ditsy and delightful as ever – with charm enough to forgive it plenty. [Review of re-release] Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
This story of a party girl (Audrey Hepburn) in love with a gigolo (George Peppard) allows Edwards to create a very handsome film, with impeccable Technicolor photography by Franz Planer. [Review of re-release] Read full review
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