Funny Face
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 28, 1957 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
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Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonJun 7, 2022
A blithe classic with Gershwin songs, Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. [03 Oct 1997, p.10]
90
Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasJun 7, 2022
Timelessly elegant and charming 1957 musical with a Gershwin score. [20 Nov 1994, p.6]
60
The New YorkerPauline KaelJun 7, 2022
You keep wanting it to turn into wonderful romantic fluff, but it's only spottily successful.
100
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)Jun 7, 2022
This film exists only for its glamorous visuals, gorgeous Gershwin music, and the dancing choreographed by Astaire and Eugene Loring. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumJun 7, 2022
The film’s sophistication is compromised by the rather dumb plot, but some of the numbers—especially “Think Pink” and “Bonjour Paris”—are standouts. Read full review
100
CineVueCleaver PattersonJun 7, 2022
Films such as the exquisite Funny Face, where all the ingredients came together in picture perfect composition, allows us to share, even if only briefly, in this land of fantasy and make-believe. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 7, 2022
Hepburn is in the boho-gamine mode, and this has a brittle charm, (arguably more than in Breakfast At Tiffany's four years later) but there is something unconvincing in the May-to-December pairing of 28-year-old Hepburn and 58-year-old Astaire and also something grumpy and not particularly classy about the way this film shrieks with laughter at silly modern women filling their empty heads with trendy Parisian intellectualism. Read full review
100
The IndependentGeoffrey MacnabJun 7, 2022
Stanley Donen's 1957 musical represents a triumph of form over content. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesTara BradyJun 7, 2022
Astaire’s dancing and Audrey’s charm sweeten a bitter pill. But unearthing this vicious artefact is not unlike exhibiting a medieval chastity belt. Read full review
88
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenJun 7, 2022
You can argue with the movie in your head, even while you admit—say, when Dick and Jo dance their way across a stream by lightly stepping onto a floating raft—that your heart is having all sorts of fun. Read full review
80
The New York TimesBosley CrowtherJun 7, 2022
Roger Edens, the talented producer, and Stanley Donen, the director, have turned the whole thing into a lovely phantasm made up of romance, tourism and chic. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineEric HendersonJun 7, 2022
The clothing may be couture, but Funny Face’s plot is strictly wash, rinse, repeat. Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)Jun 7, 2022
With a different book and new, added tunes, this is a lightly diverting, modish, Parisian-localed tintuner. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeFeb 25, 2014
There are some gorgeous comic touches. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid ParkinsonFeb 24, 2014
A timeless musical treat and the most fun you can have with really elegant clothes on. Read full review
80
Time OutKeith UhlichJun 26, 2012
Sensation trumps cogitation-unsurprising in a Hollywood production-which doesn't negate the enduring allure of this beautiful bauble. Read full review
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