Movie Review for Amadeus

Summary: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's career and life are threatened by an envious court composer Antonio Salieri.

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By Dan Jardine of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            A clever and majestic hybrid of art house fare and middle brow entertainment.

By Neil Smith of BBC (7/0)
            This 'special edition' of Amadeus proves that Abraham's Oscar triumph was no fluke.

By Dave Kehr of Chicago Reader (7/0)
            Peter Shaffer's shrewdly orchestrated cultural evening gets a steady, dignified, moderately dull ...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            In a film of grand gestures, some of the finest moments are very subtle.

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            Most costume epics come complete with a deadly seriousness, a dreary self-importance that demands...

By Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (7/0)
            Still the most wonderful movie on the subject of music ever made.

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com (7/0)
            Amadeus is a joy to behold, lavish in execution both visually and aurally.

By David Cornelius of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Amadeus is a masterful combination of acting and storytelling, of sight and sound.

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
            A smart, intelligent, and sumptuous entertainment, and for a change a Hollywood movie that captur...

By Mark Dinning of Empire Magazine (7/0)
            Entering its third decade, but has lost none of its power to awe.

By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (7/0)
            The urge to revisit old successes in an attempt to "improve" upon them is a risky venture at best...

By Brad Laidman of Film Threat (7/0)
            Hulce's goofy performance is pretty fun to watch in and of itself. He is out for sheer partying a...

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By Annette Cardwell of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            One of those magical and rare films with a nearly perfect mixture of beautiful writing, glorious ...

By James Brundage of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            Watching Amadeus is like listening to Mozart: it is a horrible beauty beyond words.

By MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
            The magnificent, passionate music alone makes it worth watching. The layered story and complex, d...

By Peter Bradshaw of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
            [A] grandiose masterpiece.

By Philip French of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
            A visual and aural treat.

By David Hunter of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            It's got more music, more drama, more of what made it a big winner with audiences and critics 18 ...

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews (7/0)
            Don't miss a chance to see and hear it on the big screen.

By S. James Wegg of JWR (7/0)
            Director Milos Forman ... gives Tom Hulce free reign to portray the world’s most sublime compose...

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            When Amadeus deals with the music%u2014and with the theme of greater and lesser talents in confli...

By Michael Dequina of Mr. Brown's Movies (7/0)
            A wonderful mix of sight and sound of humor and drama, of love and hate, of ugliness and beauty.

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            It's not a classic, but it is a solid, if somewhat stolid, picture of an extravagant, vaguely cer...

By Wesley Lovell of Oscar Guy (7/0)
            Two amazing performances cap a stellar work of musical imagination and creative artistry.

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Not a bust, but less absorbing when all the Europeans talk Americanese.

By Jeanne Aufmuth of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
            Still overwhelms and entertains with the best of them.

By Diana Saenger of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            A rewarding pictorial of a fascinating time -- its culture, music and notable people.

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            It is arguably the best motion picture ever made about the process of creation and the creator.

By Jean Lowerison of San Diego Metropolitan (7/0)
            A visual and aural treat.

By Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            In any incarnation, Amadeus is beautiful to behold.

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            What has to stand as cinema's most successful musical epic.

By Moira MacDonald of Seattle Times (7/0)
            A gloriously colorful confection of music, theater and emotion.

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            The story is utterly devastating, but it is lifted and made accessible by the combination of cine...

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
            An Academy Award winning film about a composer in the Austrian court whose life and career are de...

By Geoff Andrew of Time Out (7/0)
            The entire cast speaks in horribly intrusive American accents, but Forman makes some perceptive c...

By Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
            Filled with hundreds of magic moments and dozens of striking scenes, the energetic, vibrant and e...

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By Vincent Canby of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            As Mozart, Tom Hulce, though extremely American in looks and voice, gets better and better as the...

By Pablo Villaca of Cinema em Cena (3/4) No reference
            Uma obra de arte realmente à altura do homem que a inspirou.

By Arthur Lazere of culturevulture.net (3/4) No reference
            Forman's direction is impeccable, sustaining the unique tone on which the production hinges.

By Kim Linekin of eye WEEKLY (6/1) No reference
            Boy, what a movie.

By Liam Lacey of Globe and Mail (3/4) No reference
            The principal additions ... are more Amadeus, but not better.

By F.X. Feeney of L.A. Weekly (3/4) No reference
            This dark, exuberant epic is nearly 18 years old, yet remains the most popularly successful film ...

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By Jeffrey Overstreet of Looking Closer (3/4) No reference
            Anyone who has ever struggled with mediocrity, desired to master a craft, or competed with anothe...

By Rob Lowman of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
            Even a longer Amadeus feels and looks just right.

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (6/1) No reference
            Teens will be interested to learn that this movie was written by a man whose twin brother was for...

By David Elliott of San Diego Union-Tribune (3/4) No reference
            It captures the smack and wit of Peter Shaffer's stage play.

By Peter Howell of Toronto Star (3/4) No reference
            Like the composers the film so wondrously depicts, Amadeus: Director's Cut is a divine work in ne...

By John A. Nesbit of ToxicUniverse.com (6/1) No reference
            never before have phrases like 'sh*t marble' been uttered in film, and true genius is presented u...

                         Reviews of Amadeus
By Michael Szymanski of Zap2it.com (6/1) No reference
            A bit overdone and overblown, the movie could have easily had a half-hour cut out of it, and no o...

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