Annette Bening is great, but this isn't for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A beguiling romance about an aging actress at the peak of her career who embarks on an ill-advised, illicit affair with an admirer half her age.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2007

Annette Bening is the movie; her performance ... is the kind that will pop up on "best of" lists for years to come.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 22, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

One of the best movies from this year's Telluride Film Festival

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 5, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

(...) Bening recorre todas las emociones posibles, desde la euforia histrica hasta la ms absoluta depresin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2005

Benning ... brings this constantly disguised vixen to ferocious, flamboyant life.

| Original Score: C | May 3, 2005

While much of Being Julia's appeal stems from no one being as fabulous as [Julia] is, the lack of a worthy sparring partner diminishes the fun.

| Original Score: C | Apr 13, 2005

[A] perfectly light comedic souffl that is not intimidated by its characters' darker undercurrents.

| Mar 22, 2005

Thank God for Being Julia, an Oscar-worthy comeback role that may just save one of our most gifted actresses from a life of way too much leisure.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 9, 2005

Watching Being Julia is like seeing a racehorse with an impeccable bloodline trudging across the finish line with the rest of the pack instead of out in front of it

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2005

There have been loads of comedies set in the world of theater, but few have the uncompromising, hard edge this film has.

| Original Score: B | Feb 23, 2005

Annette Bening shines with a glow that is beyond confidence and beyond beauty. She picks up the sometimes-clunky material and carries it on her shapely shoulders.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2005

The film desires to be a biting statement on the stage and real drama. It's misguided script fails to do either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2005

Bening great in otherwise prosaic film

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2005

Smeared by a very childish ending ... But there is that Bening performance to savor.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 9, 2005

While the film isn't quite perfect, it's close enough - especially in Annette Bening's glorious lead performance - that it seems churlish to complain.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 22, 2004

Being Julia is strangely devoid of the one thing every great film needs: a hook.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 16, 2004