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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineApr 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Count Alexander Rostov (a loveably witty Ewan McGregor) adjusts in a poignant adaptation of Amor Towles' acclaimed novel. [1 - 21 Apr 2024, p.5]
Mar 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Fantastic. .... A consistently surprising and even restless bit of storytelling, its eight parts roll out along the corridors of the Metropol as an interconnected series of events, rather than a clumsy collection of episodes; the narrative is fairly seamless, yet startling in its twisting layout. It stars Ewan McGregor, never better, and a cast of charmers led by a revelatory Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
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Mar 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Heartbreaking, heartwarming, sometimes heart-stopping, and as much as anything the stage for a wonderful performance by its star, Ewan McGregor, it collects characters who are flush with emotion but — for reasons political, personal, cultural or as a matter of self-preservation — don’t demonstrate it openly. The production, too, maintains that tension between feeling and restraint, which ultimately intensifies the feeling.
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Mar 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
McGregor offers a masterclass in acting; he is consistently charming, warm, and eye-catching at all times. Some might find McGregor’s Rostov to be too twee or his cheerfulness false, but his charisma and hopefulness read authentic, which even the harshest of cynics would be forced to admit. The often bleak energy of the show is buoyed by McGregor’s winsome and earnest nature.
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The GuardianMar 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It is a fantastic dramatic playground that requires a big lead performance to sweep all the pieces together into a glittering whirl. Happily, McGregor’s Rostov is intoxicating when the character is winning and affecting when the actor allows the great sadness at the core of this benighted man to flash across his eyes.
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Mar 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It sounds like heavy-going. But this eight-part series is just the opposite thanks to the buoyant brilliance of Ewan McGregor as a Russian Count stripped of his title and forced to live in a hotel attic while 30 years of tumultuous, totalitarian history pass outside.
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The Mercury NewsMar 27, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Unlike some series, the extended length of this one benefits the decades-spanning story arc, with each episode cycling us through Russian history and showing how the changing political winds whisked away some in power leaving the powerless to find strength, love and greater meaning.
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Mar 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Because of that slight imbalance, and because the decades-spanning story doesn’t have quite enough incident to fill eight hours, A Gentleman in Moscow turns out to be a relative rarity: the prestige drama hangout show. It can be funny at times, deeply sad at others, and occasionally even surprising. Mostly, though, it works because the Count and the makeshift family he’s forced to create within the walls of the Metropol are so appealing.
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Mar 27, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Narrative momentum is a bit harder to come by, with the eight episodes requiring repetitive character loops and plot points. But once you accept that the series is largely about Rostov making sense of his restrictive circumstances, it isn’t hard to sit back and enjoy McGregor and Winstead and Sam Perry’s costumes and the general claustrophobic sumptuousness of it all.
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Mar 29, 2024
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