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Mrs. Harris

HBO | Release Date: February 25, 2006

CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION

70	METASCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic Reviews

Critic score Publication By date

100

People Weekly

Season 1 Review: The tone here can be offputtingly strange: brittle, flinty yet over the top. [20 Feb 2006, p.37]

100

Chicago Sun-Times

Season 1 Review: Scene by scene, "Mrs. Harris" overcomes the rote nature of true crime stories. Read full review

88

New York Daily News

Season 1 Review: Their dance of love and rejection, of giddiness and bitterness, is a warped waltz, and Kingsley and Bening clearly relish every step. Read full review

80

L.A. Weekly

Season 1 Review: This kind of brittlely accurate performance is something to watch in the hands of an actress like Bening, who seems incapable --even during the film’s most blackly humorous moments -- of a false, Fatal Attraction–like note. Read full review

80

Village Voice

Season 1 Review: Annette Bening is stunning in this smart biopic. Read full review

80

Newsday

Season 1 Review: "Mrs. Harris" unfolds with a basic playfulness that keeps the mood light even as the story becomes dark indeed. Read full review

80

New York Magazine (Vulture)

Season 1 Review: Entertaining... What [Nagy] has done is tailor this tabloid material to several different narrative tastes, which alternate as the movie shifts from love affair to temper tantrum to gunfire to murder trial and back again. Read full review

75

Entertainment Weekly

Season 1 Review: Jean appears to have liked humiliation... Such masochism is hard to watch, even with a stellar cast. [24 Feb 2006, p.58]

75

Detroit Free Press

Season 1 Review: Simultaneously appealing and rather sadly appalling, "Mrs. Harris" gets at the messy truth of it all in a distinctively mischievous manner. Read full review

75

San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times

Charlie McCollum

Season 1 Review: Bening provides the spark that drives "Mrs. Harris," keeping its darkly funny irony from degenerating into campy humor. Read full review

70

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Season 1 Review: "Mrs. Harris" is interesting but not intimate. It's cold, aloof and distant, much like the relationship it depicts between the principal characters. Read full review

70

Chicago Tribune

Season 1 Review: Addicting, like watching a really grimy train wreck, this sorry, sordid tale of Harris' obsessive love and descent into prescription pill addiction is icy, ironic and typically HBO in the frankness of its sex talk. Read full review

70

Kansas City Star

Season 1 Review: The constant toing-and-froing of “Mrs. Harris” might have gotten tiresome, as an earlier HBO effort at revisionist biography, “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,” did. Bening, though, is somehow able to conjure up a completely new mood for each time and setting. Read full review

70

Los Angeles Times

Daryl H. Miller

Season 1 Review: It's a psychologically rich study of love's mutability, presented in a boldly stylized, darkly comic manner. Read full review

63

New York Post

Season 1 Review: Since I myself am a sucker for a true-crime cheesefest, I was loving this movie until I was rudely reminded by my friend Denise that, "This is neither good sleaze nor serious true crime! It's half a satire, and half a true crime movie!" Read full review

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