Claire Danes is as fresh as running water in this role, exhibiting the clarity and directness that has become her strength; her characters tend to know who they are, and why.Read Full Review »
75
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Expertly directed by Richard Eyre (Iris) from Jeffrey Hatcher's play, the film is bawdy fun.Read Full Review »
75
USA Today: Mike Clark
Beauty is about two-thirds the serious-edged romp it would like to be, which still leaves a lot of room for tony fun.Read Full Review »
70
NewsWeek: David Ansen
It's a marvelous premise, and Crudup's serpentine performance has a venomous grace. But Jeffrey Hatcher's screenplay too often sacrifices psychological insight for bogus theatricality.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Teresa Wiltz
Ultimately this is a celebration of the theater, a big, wet kiss to the craft of acting and the artists who inhabited London's early stages.Read Full Review »
70
Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
An entertainment as billowy as a Shakespearean nurse's sail-shaped hat.Read Full Review »
63
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
For every thing that Stage Beauty does right, it fumbles at least one other element, resulting in a movie-going experience that is of the glass half-full/half-empty variety.Read Full Review »
63
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Yet Crudup does good, mercurial work despite a silly surfer-dude haircut.Read Full Review »
60
The New York Times: Dana Stevens
As drama, Stage Beauty is both timorous and ungainly, words that might also describe Ms. Danes's performance.Read Full Review »
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