Forman’s Amadeus is a breathtaking, divine tragedy. Amadeus is a beautifully exhilarating, outrageous feast for the eyes and ears. The 4K restoration perfectly preserves the gorgeous look and sound of the theatrical cut of a timeless masterpiece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

The Oscar-nominated performances and powerful script make Amadeus a must-watch, bringing Mozart's genius and Salieri's rivalry to life in stunning 4K.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 25, 2025

Amadeus is one of the greatest film portraits of an artist for capturing the essence of their work.

| Feb 23, 2025

Found an irresistible angle in telling the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by routing it through the bitter jealousy and hatred of his less-talented rival, Antonio Salieri (40th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 20, 2024

A grandly entertaining yarn.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 18, 2024

Lavish and flamboyant in every manner. F. Murray Abraham’s vile and sinister performance as the envious Salieri, a man with more desire to produce music than God gave him talent to create, is one for the ages.

| Jun 8, 2023

Decorated with a powdered-sugar sweetness and creamy lavishness unseen since the days of Josef von Sternberg, and performed by an eager to please, rootin'-tootin' American cast that would be comfortable in Oklahoma!, Amadeus is junk food par excellence.

| Aug 8, 2022

Mozart's subtle, timeless melodies are what sustains Amadeus over its dramatic rough spots, though Shaffer and Forman do manage to end things on a grace note.

| Aug 2, 2022

The film makes too many claims to verisimilitude to allow for suspension of disbelief... But the excitement of absorption in what remains a riveting dramatic story, in the vitality of the images, are almost enough to override all the objections.

| Jul 11, 2022

The subject of artistic creation is typically handled badly in the movies... [Amadeus] treats the subject of creativity in a fresh way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 11, 2022

This is Mozart as an eighteenth-century Bruce Springsteen, and yet (here is the genius of the movie) there is nothing cheap or unworthy about the approach.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 11, 2022

Mr. Forman, who created a highly original film out of the virtually formless stage production of Hair, has preserved the fascinating heart of Mr. Shaffer's play, and made it available to millions who might never enter a legitimate theater. Well done.

| Jul 11, 2022

Amadeus is a smashing entertainment, a culture maven's orgy, and the best advertisement for classical music we've ever had. Go see it. Go hear it.

| Jul 11, 2022

Some of this exuberant, large-scale movie is charming and inventive, and some of it is pitifully trashy... The last third of Amadeus is a disaster.

| Jul 11, 2022

For a full two hours, Amadeus is by and large a splendid film, lavish, exuberant, full of spectacle and vitality. But intoxicated by its own success, it unwisely chooses to go on and on, overstaying its welcome by a good half hour.

| Jul 11, 2022

Amadeus is not a film to be subjected to quibbling. Its beauty, energy and imaginative authority overwhelm everything except the objections of pedants.

| Jul 11, 2022

What has happened in the long-awaited, much-acclaimed Miloš Forman film, with its script by Shaffer, is that the popularization has gone so broad and so far afield of its elevated subject as to make that subject seem ridiculous.

| Jul 11, 2022

Peter Shaffer's Amadeus is scrumptiously beautiful, sizzlingly alive and bristling with social comedy. His screenplay contains the most piercing account of deadly envy since Othello, and is a heartbreaking account of a good man's fall from grace.

| Jul 11, 2022

Amadeus on the Broadway stage was a dazzling feat of dramaturgy. Miloš Forman has fashioned it into a stunning motion picture.

| Jul 11, 2022

Forman is greatly indebted to an excellent cast, especially to Tom Hulce as the hee-hawing Mozart and Jeffrey Jones' quietly hilarious portrayal of the emperor. My own personal Oscar, though, goes to F. Murray Abraham's Salieri.

| Jul 11, 2022