Tchaikovsky's Wife
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50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

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80
Time OutTrevor JohnstonJan 2, 2024
With its intensely-felt performances, haunting winter lighting, and seemingly inescapable claustrophobia, it leaves a mark. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 20, 2022
It’s hard to imagine that anyone could make another movie about 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that’s as febrile and virtuosic as Ken Russell’s “The Music Lovers,” but dissident filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov ... has risen to the challenge with his usual aplomb, orchestrating a historical melodrama that’s almost as feverish as last year’s “Petrov’s Flu.” Read full review
75
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 20, 2022
A fevered, hypnotizing, meticulously detailed period piece with a protagonist so monomaniacal the film could almost be considered high camp. Read full review
74
TheWrapSteve PondMay 20, 2022
It’s a bold and stylish work that slips in and out of fantasy and isn’t afraid to use music and sound design as a weapon, but it can also get relentlessly dreary and oppressive, albeit by design. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJihane BousfihaMay 20, 2022
With many successful technical elements that are a perfect fit for the premise, Serebrennikov certainly made an ambitious work, and perhaps there is a great movie hidden underneath this lacking final product, but its constant return to the same subjects without any further analysis becomes quickly tiring. Read full review
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