Aaron Sorkin's smart comedy sticks a fork into Fifties Hollywood, with Kidman and Javier Bardem on fine form as I Love Lucy's iconic Lucy and Desi.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024

As with all of Sorkin’s work, the main appeal of Being the Ricardos is how his script, like a glass bottom boat, allows us to see beneath the surface of a rarefied world.

| Jul 25, 2023

The performances make it worth the watch, with Sorkin's snappy dialogue providing much to admire, alongside its deep character study. However, Sorkin tends to get in his own way, his directing not quite on par with his writing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Being the Ricardos is an all-encompassing entertainment of classic Hollywood lore while folding in provocative themes of equality, freedoms, and government mistrust. It bears repeating— Sorkin’s film is addictive movie magic.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2022

One suspects that BEING THE RICARDOS will have more appeal for those who remember the original "I Love Lucy" show, but there is also reasonable coverage of the technical aspects of rehearsing and filming an episode at that time.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 16, 2022

[Sorkin] jacks up the jeopardy on a slapstick comedy that was teeming with backstage drama.

| Aug 30, 2022

Being the Ricardos kept winning me over by being interesting, despite being contrived and Nicole Kidman bearing no resemblance to Lucille Ball.

| Aug 26, 2022

With its more zoomed-in focus, Sorkin’s knack for snappy dialogue, and some knockout performances, “Being the Ricardos” offers a zesty peep into the charismatic couple and the creative process which brought their beloved show to life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2022

'Being the Ricardos' is a neat piece of filmmaking, but it didn’t make me feel I knew the couple any better than I had before.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 22, 2022

Chronicles a crucial week in the life of America's sweetheart, a comedian trapped in a miserable marriage in which she seems more concerned about her husband escapades than being the target of a witch hunt. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 21, 2022

The impressive precision that Sorkin displays when bringing the "I Love Lucy" scenes to life reveals an attention to detail in his directing that I had previously only seen in his writing, and it lifts his work as a director to another level.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 15, 2022

Sorkin at his best...

| May 19, 2022

I dont think it is too harsh to say that this Aaron Sorkin written and directed film was a disappointment.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 1, 2022

Sorkin benefits from two talented leads in Kidman and Bardem. The latter of whom looks...nothing like Arnaz, but inhabits the role so completely you don't care. And it isn't that Kidman doesn't look like Ball, it's that she doesn't look like anyone.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 19, 2022

That Sorkin glosses the McCarthy Era like this and places himself to the right of Eastwood is surprising. But it makes sense...

| Mar 28, 2022

'Being the Ricardos' also ranks among Sorkin's best scripts, with its astute, nuanced portraits of legendary stars, early 온라인카지노추천 politics and gender dynamics of the 1950s.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2022

So much talent and potential wasted on a mediocre script.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 6, 2022

Because its Sorkin, most of this is steered toward tidy, middlebrow conclusions; also because its Sorkin, the steering is often amusing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Beneath Sorkins ornate script lies a The Show Must Go On parable thats been done better elsewhere. For a figure so key to American culture, its a sadly ordinary tribute.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2022

Provides a highly pleasurable nostalgia hit and will have you searching out I Love Lucy clips on YouTube.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2022