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

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 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

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

See the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2005

Blossoming into radiant color, this film has picture-postcard charms that the black-and-white earlier version could only hint at.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Ford looks as stiff and old hat as his homburg.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

Proves too flimsy of a reed to be successfully replanted.

| Feb 13, 2001

Just as satisfying, if not as dry and cynical, as the original.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A warm and clever romantic comedy that stands on its own and offers a good time for two hours -- despite its myriad implausibilities.

| Jan 1, 2000

Polished, classy

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Never evokes the sweet allure of Billy Wilder's original film.

| Jan 1, 2000

Sydney Pollack miraculously almost pulls off his updated homage simply by choosing well and popping enough champagne corks to make us believe the wealthy are still glamorous despite Donald Trump.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A light fairy-tale, sweet and charming.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Has a level of complexity rare in contemporary Hollywood.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The remake, alas, must mask its failings with Julia Ormond's toothsomeness, Pollack's poky pacing and the uninspired scribblings of writers Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel.

| Jan 1, 2000