Casanova
BBC | BBC-3 | BBC Three | Release Date: March 13, 2005
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyAlynda Wheat
Season 1 Review: [O'Toole's] Casanova may have lust in his heart, but it's his love for Henriette... that guides his life and makes the tale worth the telling. [6 Oct 2006, p.64]
75
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: A playful pastiche of clashing styles. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: When you’ve got Peter O’Toole in a Masterpiece Theatre mini-series, who cares how many liberties teleplaywright Russell T. Davies took with the confabulations of Giovanni Giacomo Casanova? Read full review
70
The New York TimesAnita Gates
Season 1 Review: It does have a lively pace, a warm spirit, a contagious sense of fun, some very pretty 18th-century European settings and Peter O’Toole as the title character in his later years. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLaurence Vittes
Season 1 Review: A second half that bogs down and suspect chemistry will deter some viewers from finding out what really happened at the end of Casanova's days. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: "Casanova" only gets into trouble when it wants to mean something, and the more pointedly emotional moments seem cooked up to the point of hokum, but it's fun when it wants to be, and most of the time it just wants to be fun. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: "Casanova" is a giddily unconventional tale of an adventurous youth, but then it's also a stock and inflated portrait of old age. Read full review
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