The Leopard (re-release)
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: August 13, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
100
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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100
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
The film's superb first two hours, which weave social and historical themes into rich personal drama, turn out to be only a prelude to the magnificent final hour--an extended ballroom sequence that leaves history behind to become one of the most moving meditations on individual mortality in the history of the cinema. (Review of 1983 Release) Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The Leopard was written by the only man who could have written it, directed by the only man who could have directed it, and stars the only man who could have played its title character. Read full review
100
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Virtually every Super Technirama frame of Luchino Visconti's 1963 masterpiece The Leopard could be described as "painterly" in its ornate details and exquisitely balanced color compositions. (Review of DVD Release) Read full review
100
VarietyStaff (Not credited)
Italy's top bestseller of recent literary history, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard comes to the screen in a magnificent film, munificently outfitted and splendidly acted by a large cast dominated by Burt Lancaster. (Review of Original Release) Read full review
100
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
The Leopard is the greatest film of its kind made since World War II—its only rivals are Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" and Visconti's own "Senso." Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
One of the greatest of all epics. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Sumptuous and beautiful, suffused with a serene melancholy and deeply ambivalent love for a long-vanished past, Luchino Visconti's 1963 The Leopard is one of the greatest of all historical costume epics. Read full review
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Smart and sumptuous. Read full review
100
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Watching this masterwork allows you to return to the filmmaking sensibility of the 1960s, when epics looked like epics. Read full review
100
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
The film is a glittering triumph of personal expression at its most elegant and opulent. Read full review
90
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not credited)
This is a gorgeous, fascinating account of the interplay between the personal and the social, directed with the kind of insight that only an aristocrat turned Marxist like Visconti could afford. (Review of Original Release) Read full review
90
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
For the most part, Nino Rota's music provides a rich melodic surrounding for the pictorial magnificence, and a heretofore unknown Verdi waltz that is played at the ball at the finish appropriately supplements this remarkably vivid, panoramic, and eventually morbid show. (Review of Original Release) Read full review
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