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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for TheArtsStl (28) on 18 Oct 2018

[focuses on] the least interesting period in Wilde's life, his final years of decline, and fails to make a case for why the viewer should care…

Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By Brad Wheeler (426) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Oct 2018

The cast is solid; Everett’s acting in particular is deep, indelible and award-worthy. We smell Oscar, one might say…

Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By Glenn Sumi (92) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 17 Oct 2018

What's most refreshing about this adaptation is that it's clearly the work of a queer man. Everett doesn't sanitize or de-sex his Wilde…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 17 Oct 2018

[Everett] delivers a towering and persuasive performance in a mostly sombre and sorrowful film and, as director, does a fine job of capturing…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 17 Oct 2018

The Happy Prince is a genuine passion project, a creative act existing completely in its own space and on its own terms…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 16 Oct 2018

It finds the right harmonized note of melancholy and humor in its closing moments…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 16 Oct 2018

Wilde gave so much of himself to the world that his story deserves to be told and the Everett triumvirate does it an honor…

Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 16 Oct 2018

Everett draws effectively from Wilde’s own writings and witticisms…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 15 Oct 2018

Everett's structured his film as a series of memories held loosely together by his various recitations of his fairy tale, his death bed in…

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By Jon Espino (144) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 15 Oct 2018

Although we'll never know what Wilde may have created had he been able to live a full life, The Happy Prince seems a worthy predecessor because…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Oct 2018

Fortunately, the maudlin moments are offset by fine performances, flashes of humor and a visual sense that’s more astute than the script…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 11 Oct 2018

There's no denying the love put into this craft, but the end result feels basic, bland, safe, and intended for Rupert Everett himself more…

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By Michael Ordoña (350) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 11 Oct 2018

Sex, language in drama about Oscar Wilde's last days…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 11 Oct 2018

A sense of injustice runs like a toxic river through Everett’s film, an affront to homophobia through the ages, even our enlightened one…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for Crooked Marquee (120) on 10 Oct 2018

A lugubrious slog... We never get a good sense of who Wilde was; it's just a recitation of events…

Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 09 Oct 2018

Gives debuting director and writer/star Rupert Everett a trifecta career high…

Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By Samantha Incorvaia (38) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 09 Oct 2018

The goal here was to show the tragic downfall of a once-praised hero, similar to the actual poem written by Wilde with the same name…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 09 Oct 2018

This is Everett's first film as a director, and there are times when it shows…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 09 Oct 2018

Everett’s utterly fantastic performance as Wilde slightly exceeds his grasp as a first-time filmmaker…

Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 08 Oct 2018

It's such a gorgeous, sumptuous film with stunning cinematography and a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack…

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