De-Lovely

This movie uses Cole Porter's music to tell Cole Porter's life - and does so with creativity, humour, drama and sometimes pathos - all in the right amount. Fabulous.... Full review

I am a huge Cole Porte fan, and gay male, and the best review I read for this Movie is in Mom's reviews on yahoo. To start: poor direction. A badly "safe" musical. The musical numbers for the most part capture... Full review

This is a movie to be heard and not seen. The soundtrack is replete with excellent covers of Porter's timeless music. Given that we have all grown up in a world of disposable pop music, I can still sing most of... Full review

wow... this is a great movie i've seen.. very fantastic and it will let you fALL INLOVE NIGHT AND DAY!!!!!!!!!... Full review

While all the individual peformances seemed seemed servicable, there wasn't a lot of chemistry between the actors. This flaw probably needs to be set at the directors feet. It also would have been a little more interesting to see a greater... Full review

I loved this movie...the music was of course the best part, but the love story was so beautiful, and I felt I knew these people personally. I always like movies based on true stories, and this one was the best!... Full review

THIS MOVIE COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER. FOUND IT TACKEY HOW THEY CLEARLY HAD COLE P LOOKING AT HIS LIFE LIKE IT WAS A STAGE PRODUCTION, BUT ALSO HOW HIS WIFE WAS BASICALLY A STRUCTURE THERE IN HIS LIFE UNLIKE... Full review

If you adore the music of Cole Porter and/or are fascinated by his life, this is a great movie to see. Porter's life is difficult to translate to the screen... he lived in so many places, traveled so much, had so... Full review

My friends and I were blown away with this fantastic movie! I think you have to bring your history- not a movie for teens or early adults who have no idea of love and loss. The concept worked superbly, the music... Full review

At first, I was skeptical of the device used in this movie - like the ghost of Christmas past taking you on a journey to view your past life. And to top it all off, this journey is told in the... Full review

Cole Porter does not come out of this film looking like a hero. I found the movie generally fulfilling though it did seem to be unclear as to what it was trying to focus on. Kevin Kline is excellent in his role. ... Full Review

An enjoyable, poignant, musical memoir, De-Lovely is well worth watching.....De-Lovely is an Unconventional Love Story....One of the most enjoyable parts of this film is how it incorporates Cole Porter’s music into the story.....Hollywood in a musical retrospective of Mr. Porter’s life, guided by an ambiguous, angel/devil character, expertly played by Jonathan Pryce..... ... Full Review

For a biopic of such a dynamic character, "De-Lovely" lacks the humor and energy that made Mr. Porter himself so memorable. His work alone is worthy of the title "De-Lovely". Ashley Judd fares less well as Linda. ... Full Review

Or, as the film has it, his split desire, for the "intimacy" he feels with Linda and the serial sexual relationships he has with men (apparently, these are not intimate).....During such moments, Irwin Winkler's movie achieves a strange grace, complicated and cunning as Porter's own art and experience.....As the endearingly balls-out series of singing-and-dancing numbers has gone out of style, the ostentatiously heady, occasionally puppeteered musical has come in.....At other times, De-Lovely is less smart, ... Full Review

As legendary songwriter Porter, Kevin Kline's deft, unshowy performance contributes to the film's charm.....the movie scarcely covers any time before they met.....The result is a likable film that cannot break out of the biopic rhythms (spark of promise; success; crisis; long-suffering partner; eventual triumph).....Kline has always been a generous actor.....they're surrounded by few memorable supporting characters..... ... Full Review

This is Cole Porter's "All That Jazz" - an overworldly biography, tribute and over-the-top production number. It begins with an aged Porter, played by Kevin Kline, watching a musical production of his life while he suggests edits to the producer,... ... Full Article

One thing about technology that gets to me is the way it caters to our impatience.The faster we can get our media fix, the less patient we are with the world's artistic offerings. ... Full Article

Despite the wonderful music, wonderful costumes and sets, and exceptional acting by Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd (Double Jeopardy), this Cole Porter musical biography comes off somewhat stiff and lifeless. ... Full Article

When a ghostly producer tells him hes about to put on a musical revue of his life, the geriatric Cole Porter is unimpressed.Is this one of those avant-garde things? ... Full Article

D irector Jonathan Demme recycles the plot and characters of John Frankenheimer's great 1962 Communist paranoia film, The Manchurian Candidate , in an earnest and frequently affecting remake. ... Full Article

Irwin Winkler's "De-Lovely" flies so gallantly in the face of what's supposed to work at the movies these days that you just have to love it. It's a biography of Cole Porter -- a great songwriter for sure, but one ... Full Article