The new "Sabrina" is an enchanting romantic comedy with the magic of a fairy tale, but also with the poignance of a broken heart.

| Nov 27, 2024

Fans of the original won't be satisfied, but, by the end, there's no doubt Pollack achieves a sparkle to match the picture's undoubted polish.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2024

Even 40 years ago the material was none too sparkling, though Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden made it appear so. The present cast are in no position to manufacture fizz.

| Dec 20, 2023

The original was titled Sabrina Fair: now meet Sabrina Middling-To-Downright-Dull.

| Dec 20, 2023

The whole fairy-tale, under Sydney Pollack's direction, has lost its acidity here and ended up like a stick of rock: long, sweet and muscle-aching to consume.

| Dec 20, 2023

Sabrina is I think actually one of the most successful remakes... ever made.

| Original Score: A- | May 9, 2019

Miraculously, Pollack makes Billy Wilder's 1954 light comedy leaden, like a chef turning a meringue into a bread pudding.

| Dec 12, 2017

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Uneven remake, still a sweet story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

We remain outside the fourth wall looking in but are never drawn in; bemused perhaps, even agreeably complaisant, but never entirely amused.

| Feb 3, 2009

This new Sabrina is more fizzle than fizz.

Full Review | Feb 3, 2009

Sydney Pollack directs with the sort of polish that was easy to take for granted two decades ago but almost looked like classicism in 1995.

| Feb 3, 2009

Ormand and Ford, who are actually okay, have the impossible tasks of following Wilder's perfect players, Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

| Oct 18, 2008

Ugly-duckling-into-swan stories are fun, but the lead characters here lack the charisma to make this romantic comedy sufficiently believable or engaging.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Not, as some reviewers claimed, a mediocre reworking of a Hollywood classic, but a truly lousy reworking of a Billy Wilder misfire.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2008

A flaccid remake of the classic 1954 romantic comedy.

| May 27, 2008

It's hard to imagine any actress today reprising Audrey Hepburn's graceful charm, but British newcomer Julia Ormond is a particularly bad choice and Harrison Ford ain't Bogey, either. Add the film to long list of unnecessary remakes.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 18, 2007

Falls flat compared to the original.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 4, 2006

Ormond's face is certainly not hard to gaze at, but she looks so often ill at ease that her 'confident' gay smiles suggest, inappropriately, some masked pyschological distress.

| Jun 24, 2006

A lovely, underrated update...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005