This is an intelligent, faithful reading, suffused with a heady sense of atmosphere of a post war America that's also losing its innocence. Disturbing certainly, but the worst thing you can say is that it's a bit dramatically dull.

| Feb 2, 2023

Dominique Swain as Lolita is appropriately sulky and gawky, and she has a sudden, delayed smile which lights up the whole film whenever it appears.

| Aug 17, 2018

How does Lyne's Lolita compare with Stanley Kubrick's, back in 1962? It's superior in balance.

| Feb 1, 2018

[VIDEO ESSAY] Although it is considered sacrilege in some circles to say it, Adrian Lyne's 1997 film version of Vladimir Nabokov's often banned 1954 novel is a vast improvement over Stanley Kubrick's beloved 1962 version.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 5, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

...the performances hit the right notes...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2003

Irons is excellent, but the film is a real cold shower

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 19, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2002

...any film of Lolita is bound to disappoint the few who insist on the primacy of Nabokov's novel

| Original Score: 87/100 | Jul 31, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002

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

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 78/100 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Unlike Kubrick's cool, black comedy, Lyne's LOLITA displays a much broader emotional tapestry

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2000

The film is remarkably...disturbing. There's no other way to put it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000