A definite must-see, dahlings.

| May 27, 2022

What's good about the movie is the lesser known up-and-corners who play the bright young things themselves, especially the appellatorily appropriate Fenella Woolgar as Agatha

| Feb 3, 2018

Fry's dialogue is terrific and interlaces with Waugh's own wit seamlessly.

| Jan 15, 2018

Satire should seek to sterilise or maim its targets; Fry wants us to feel for them.

| Jul 29, 2015

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Though it falls short of Fry's best work in other fields, this is a sound first feature.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Despite a somewhat artificial ending, with its vivid characters and intricate plot, Bright Young Things really does seem like a novel come to life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 22, 2006

The wit never comes through the art deco settings.

| Original Score: C | Jul 4, 2006

If a movie can draw this kind of talent for mostly miniscule roles, how can you go wrong?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 26, 2006

The 'wit' is leaden and unfunny; the narrative's progress ungainly; the direction stolid.

| Feb 9, 2006

The film is a breezy and likable enough entertainment, especially for those of us unfamiliar with Waugh's original.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

It is in the humorous moments that the movie really hits its stride, with the supporting cast providing many of the laughs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2005

One conceit of writer-director Stephen Fry is to dramatize parties as knots of chaos, social hurricanes that spill across the landscape this way and that, ruining lives, eating time, preventing progress of any kind.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

The uninitiated are hereby warned: Bright Young Things has an exclusionary timbre. Unlike Hollywood films it never slows down to explain a joke or clarify an allusion.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 8, 2005

Fry often seems unsure of whether he wants to stress satire or drama, and while a good film can be both, this film is neither.

| Nov 23, 2004

A great deal of fun for its first two-thirds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2004

Fry seems to believe there's nothing that would fulfill audiences more than to vicariously tag along on screen after fictionalized celebrity types from another time.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2004

Memorable characters come and go so often and so franticaly that you wonder if World War II might have been merely the explosion of England's fast pulse.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 28, 2004

Fry directs his performers with real sensitivity; as the film moves along it becomes a showcase for some really wonderful ensemble acting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2004