Madame Bovary
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: November 30, -0001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
Robert Ardrey has put it together into a literate and playable script and Vincente Minelli has kept it moving with a smooth and refined directoral touch. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Philip French
Decent adaptation by playwright Robert Ardrey of Flauberts great novel, directed in the staid MGM costume-classic style and much superior to the recent Claude Chabrol version. [30 Jan 2000]
50
The New YorkerPauline Kael
The director, Vincente Minnelli, stages an impressive romantic ball, but the whole movie is hopelessly overscaled.
50
Portland OregonianTed Mahar
Vincente Minnelli's 1949 film is patently made on the MGM lot, and Van Heflin makes cloddish country doctor Monsieur Bovary a bit too pleasant. And Emma Bovary's grotesque death is tidied up. Still, the film conveys the story and Emma's naive romantic thralls. [13 Jun 2004]
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
As a character study, Madame Bovary is interesting to watch, but hard to feel. It is a curiously unemotional account of some rather basic emotions. However, the surface treatment of Vincente Minnelli's direction is slick and attractively presented. Read full review
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