BUtterfield 8
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: November 4, 1960 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
78
Austin ChronicleStephen MacMillan Moser
When Liz is good, she's very, very good, but when she's bad, she gives it all she's got. Director Daniel Mann definitely had a way with leading ladies. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Glossy trash with the star at full throttle, it's the quintessential La Liz movie. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
The dialogue is rough. Let's say O'Harrowing. And the ending is absurd. But so is most of it for that matter. It's the living it up that gets you in this film. Read full review
60
Film ThreatStaff (Not Credited)
Like a TV sitcom where the locations of commercial breaks can be foreseen, after about twenty minutes of Butterfield 8, you can predict when a transition will conclude a scene. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLawrence O'Toole
Taylor’s work is several notches above the botched material, adapted from the John O’Hara novel. Read full review
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Alterations made on John O'Hara's 1935 novel by the scenarists (among other things, they have updated it from the Prohibition era, spectacularized the ending and refined some of the dialog) have given Butterfield 8 the form and pace it needs, but the story itself remains a weak one, the behavior and motivations of its characters no more tangible than in the original work. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
It's just about as awful as you'd expect, despite the presence of two first-class screenwriters. Read full review
30
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Once thought of as racy and adventurous in its treatment of sex, this turgid nonsense about a high-class whore with love in her heart has dated atrociously. Taylor hams away and Harvey in his debonair mood is distinctly unappealing, while the overall effect is too excruciating even to be unintentionally funny. Read full review
30
The New YorkerPauline Kael
Daniel Mann's direction is maybe even worse that the Charles Schnee-John Michael Hayes script.
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