The film is... a very effective fable.

| May 2, 2025

Director Bryan Forbes photographs the victims of Stepford in the most romantic way.

| May 2, 2025

Director Bryan Forbes and screenwriter William Goldman have given not only substance but also a stunningly possible shocker ending to Ira Levin's unsatisfying novel.

| May 2, 2025

"The Stepford Wives" allows only tendrils of eeriness to disrupt the bland normalcy of its facade.

| May 2, 2025

The filmmakers have padded the plot somewhat, succeeding only in making the experience even more tedious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2025

For more than an hour, the horror fails to materialize, and the satire of exurbia putts along on one clogged cylinder.

| May 2, 2025

Its characterisation is mostly dull, and visually it is uneventful, to say the least.

| May 2, 2025

It emerges as a subtly chilling suspense tale.

| May 2, 2025

The idea has potential for satire which is not realized at all. Director Bryan Forbes hasn't brought out the the humorous possibilities. So it must stand as a horror movie, and it is disappointing in that respect, also.

| May 2, 2025

"The Stepford Wives" is mindless junk pretending it has a mind.

| May 2, 2025

Katharine Ross's Joanna is a truly impassioned performance.

| May 2, 2025

British director Forbes has done an excellent job on the picture throughout.

| May 2, 2025

Many of the original flaws have been corrected, or at least softened, in what turns out to be a well crafted piece of soft core, contemporary horror.

| May 2, 2025

Bryan Forbes lacks the panache and and sense of gleeful outage of a Roman Polanski needed to bring off the film's final far-out twist.

| May 2, 2025

William Goldman, who usually writes superficial hack screenplays, has even managed to improve Ira Levin's specious, meager little book.

| May 2, 2025

"The Stepford Wives" is a very silly movie.

| May 2, 2025

It is almost always watchable and contains performances from Katharine Ross and Paula Prentiss that are as good as anything they have given us.

| May 2, 2025

Where Levin made some mediocre attempts to subtle allusion to an awful conclusion, director Bryan Forbes drops hints like anvils.

| May 2, 2025

Director Forbes and screenwriter William Goldman are in no hurry at all during the first hour of this 114-minute movie and at times the pace lags. But it picks up.

| May 2, 2025

In trying to be more than science fiction, in aspiring to social commentary, "The Stepford Wives" winds up less.

| May 1, 2025