CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Ty Burr - Boston Globe

Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Carrie Rickey - Philadelphia Inquirer

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Kimberley Jones - Austin Chronicle

Jack Mathews - NY Daily News

Laine Ewen - Premiere Magazine

Claudia Puig - USA Today

Lawrence Toppman - Charlotte Observer

Connie Ogle - Miami Herald

Megan Lehmann - NY Post

DUELING CRITICS

"[It] is a musical and a biography, and brings to both of those genres a worldly sophistication that is rare in the movies...We're reminded how exhilarating the classic American songbook is, and how inarticulate so much modern music sounds by contrast"

- Roger Ebert

"After a fizzy beginning, De-Lovely withers and wanes, becoming a listless trudge through a life -- and ultimately doing an injustice to a complex man and his enchanting, immortal songbook"

- Megan Lehmann