Streisand has more talent than she knows what to do with, and the heart of a lion. But she's made a movie about the unassuming, unaffected person she wants us to think she is, and the image is so truthless she can't play it.

| Jan 22, 2024

For all its faults, I enjoyed A Star is Born. It's a chemistry experiment, and the chemistry -- between the stars -- is good.

| May 9, 2023

... In a way this lavish epic could be titled Funny Girl meets Rock 'N' Roll.

| Mar 24, 2023

Get the old message, girls, and in pounding stereo -- you still can't have a career and a man. Not that your man will actively hold you back -- he'll just destroy himself in protest.

| Sep 22, 2021

Only required if you're crazy for Streisand.

| Original Score: C | Jul 16, 2020

For the most part, A Star Is Born is a dull, indistinguishable remake that reeks with that omni-present Streisand ego.

| May 26, 2020

This new version follows the previous three in its broad outline, but there are differences. To make room for a number of songs, characterization has suffered.

| Oct 31, 2019

Having seen both Janet Gaynor and Judy Garland (several times) one can only say that this picture as a re-re-make, suffers by comparison and so does its star (not him, but her)... But, it is also a film with two stars who are well worth seeing.

| Oct 25, 2019

Not even the musical numbers are safe from this general disaster. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 25, 2019

A Star is Born rarely stops seeming manufactured; it can't disguise its manipulations or the process of the storytelling. You see the tangled strings, not the puppets.

| Mar 6, 2019

The trouble with rock 'n' roll in A Star Is Born is that there isn't any. The soundtrack is filled with homogenized harmonics passing for rock, but not a single song is good enough even to be counterfeit.

| Mar 6, 2019

A Star Is Born presents Streisand in an appealing and sympathetic role, and Kristofferson provides the perfect balance. In his toughest dramatic assignment to date, he is exceptionally good.

| Mar 6, 2019

Too often director Frank Pierson appears to be allowing his players to act the scene as they think fit rather than under his guidance.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 6, 2019

It is ironic that the star system itself has killed A Star is Born, a film written to expose that system for just this kind of destructiveness.

| Mar 6, 2019

Gloriously over the top, lurid, self-obsessed; it's no surprise I've developed a liking for this. Kristofferson absolutely holds the narrative together, bringing a sense of realism even within this crazy world; Streisand's performances are showstopping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2018

Barbra Streisand's fantastic singing voice shows to the best advantage her incredible talent. The movie falls short of greatness, but it compares more than favorably not only with the usual concert film but also with the current love stories on film.

| Oct 10, 2018

I swear, I meant to roll my eyes; yet as the stage lights faded and swelled, I found myself starting to cry instead.

| Oct 4, 2018

This version vaunts its modernity by vulgarising everything in sight.

| Oct 3, 2018

The new A Star Is Born has the rare distinction of being a superlative remake.

| Oct 3, 2018

The movie's basic problem is that we simply cannot believe that Streisand and Kristofferson are in the throes of a passionate love affair.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2018