Cyrano
United Artists Releasing | Release Date: December 17, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
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Generally favorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
18
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 13, 2022
Dinklage always holds the screen with his natural charisma. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeFeb 28, 2022
It’s as though an essential part of the character’s appeal is missing; the knock-on effect is that the film’s glorious scenery and Sicilian backdrop end up doing rather a lot of heavy lifting. Read full review
60
CNNBrian LowryFeb 25, 2022
Thanks to the cast (which also includes Ben Mendelsohn, near-unrecognizable as the villainous De Guiche), Cyrano is worth seeing, either now or later. But it's a relatively modest addition to the title's storied history, one where the music subtracts at least as much as it adds to the story's inherent poetry. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 25, 2022
The casting is perfect in concept, and occasionally fulfills its promise, but in a notably imperfect film that’s afflicted by a benumbing score and dreary songs. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottFeb 24, 2022
From the moment Cyrano enters the action, his charisma and intelligence are on splendid display, and Dinklage — jaunty, melancholy, sly — takes possession of the movie. But that means that the argument on which the drama depends is over before it has even begun. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerFeb 23, 2022
Joe Wright brings fun and imagination to an oft-told tale, even if the story beats offer few surprises. Still worth seeing for a compelling Peter Dinklage turn. Read full review
60
Time OutCathy BrennanFeb 10, 2022
It’s an old-fashioned film that always wears its heart on its sleeve – even when its main character keeps his hidden. Read full review
60
IGNTara Bennett Dec 21, 2021
As a musical, only a few songs really stand out, which is always problematic. There’s also a staginess to the whole endeavor that feels awkward and ham-handed when transposed onto the big screen. But director Joe Wright does get excellent performances from his whole cast, and creates a lush and beautiful period piece playground for the characters to exist within. Read full review
58
UproxxVince ManciniFeb 28, 2022
Cyrano is gorgeous to look at and periodically to listen to, but narratively it’s a lazy take on the material, combining Victorian ideas of purity with Love Actually clichés prizing impotent schoolboy pining over actual connection. In spirit it’s a lot more like the boring, beautiful Christian than it is the audacious homely Cyrano. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekFeb 24, 2022
Joe Wright’s well-intentioned adaptation of Erica Schmidt’s stage musical (itself drawn from Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac) can’t survive its own petulant, self-centered love object, Roxanne (Haley Bennett). Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesFeb 24, 2022
The story – two guys, one girl, much deceit – is eternally contemporary. Sometimes gigglingly so in the hands of ever-erratic Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement, Pan), who injects horny, corny musical theatre-kid energy into this latest iteration of Rostand’s doomed love triangle. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 23, 2022
In the end, the most valuable aspect of “Cyrano” is that it shows that Peter Dinklage can do anything. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeDon AucoinFeb 23, 2022
With its overly solemn, by-the-numbers approach, “Cyrano’' doesn’t make a strong enough case for another go at the story. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChuck BowenDec 15, 2021
As is typically the case with Joe Wright's films, one is left both exhilarated and exhausted, wishing that he had been more interested in the material at the center of his house of flourishes. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliDec 15, 2021
Cyrano is a disappointment. The set design and camera work are first rate, as are the performances of Dinklage and Bennett. It causes one to wonder whether, had the songs been excised in favor a straightforward telling, Cyrano might have played better. As it is, however, it’s merely a handsome looking period piece with too many mediocre songs and a major downer of an ending. Not exactly a great way to ring in a new year. Read full review
50
TheWrapSep 5, 2021
While it doesn’t come together seamlessly, there are wonderful moments between Dinklage and Bennett, even Harrison Jr. and Mendelsohn have their moments to shine. Perhaps it’s why this version of Cyrano felt so bittersweet, leaving the audience with a sense of what might have been. Read full review
40
NMERalph JonesApr 11, 2024
It’s a well-intentioned film with some good songs which, despite having more than two hours to come together, doesn’t quite do so. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 25, 2022
That the film winds up cramped, underwhelming and strangely thwarted is hard to square with all the effort up on screen – or perhaps it just feels too much like effort. Read full review
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