Pavarotti
CBS Films | Release Date: June 7, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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60
EmpireIan FreerJul 13, 2019
The film soft-peddles any sense of controversy but what emerges is an entertaining portrait of a generous, funny, larger-than-life figure. And the music is sublime. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearJun 6, 2019
For some, the chance to hear the divine sound of that voice and see that smiling mug once again will be worth it. For others, it will simply feel like song half sung. Read full review
60
The New York TimesKen JaworowskiJun 6, 2019
This is a film too enamored of its subject to pry very deeply. And yet, it’s hard not to be enamored as well, as Pavarotti’s larger-than-life personality shines in almost every scene. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 5, 2019
Ron Howard’s documentary Pavarotti is content to bask in his glow; despite the broad array of home movies, family photos, interviews, TV outtakes, and concert recordings at its disposal, it never feels intimate with Pavarotti the person. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 29, 2019
Pavarotti, much like its subject, is fun and full of life for as long as it lasts, but as soon as it’s over you realize how little of it you got to see. Howard’s doc offers a crystal clear record of how Pavarotti brought opera to the world, but it leaves us guessing at what he might have left behind. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jenna SimeonovJun 6, 2019
It’s a sweeping story, but for those already enamoured with “the people’s tenor," Pavarotti is unlikely to offer any new insights into his life. Read full review
50
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJun 1, 2019
The best part of Ron Howard’s long-winded and fitfully moving Pavarotti occurs at the beginning with footage from 1995 of the world-famous tenor — who died in 2007, at 71 — visiting an opera house built in the middle of the Amazon jungle. The legend has it that Enrico Caruso had performed there 100 years before. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDerek SmithJun 1, 2019
Throughout, the too-brief depictions of Luciano Pavarotti’s flaws are conspicuously shrouded in a veil of hagiography. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 12, 2019
Bland, incurious and passionless, this documentary about the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti is like a promotional video licensed by a team of copyright lawyers – and about as challenging as a Three Tenors gig at Wembley stadium. Read full review
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