Pfeiffer never fails to commit to her role and all the pains therein. It’s an exceptional performance, and along with the ever-relevant themes about age and beauty, it makes the film worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2023

The period detail is gorgeous, but all the sumptuousness on display seems to make the action ponderous, and not even the droll voice over provided, uncredited, by Frears can gee things along.

| Nov 22, 2020

Despite its turn-of-the-20th-century setting, Chéri is a remarkably contemporary story.

| Jan 27, 2020

Not erotic enough to be a decent bodice-ripper, funny enough to be a decent comedy, or moving enough to be a decent drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2019

Miss Pfeiffer is very thin and beautiful; Lea might be at the end of her career, but the actress who plays her certainly is not. She's wonderfully seductive.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2018

No need for elaborate sets: a walk through a rose garden or a Mucha reproduction on the wall, will suffice, especially when our primary attention is riveted by the sensuous interplay of the two leads.

| Mar 19, 2018

Despite its promising pedigree, Cheri doesn't ever find its way.

| Original Score: C | Aug 17, 2017

Pfeiffer maintains her poise throughout. It's not her performance that limits Chéri, it's the script, which too thin to support the emotional weight it's expected to bear.

| Oct 1, 2014

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Insubstantial bit of fluff, with whores sitting around dishing each other.

| Aug 26, 2011

For a movie that is so steeped in sex and carries an R rating, there's a pretty scant amount of titillating sex.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 26, 2011

full review at Movies for the Masses

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 1, 2011

Gallic liaisons that aren't especially dangerous - or intriguing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2010

Un correcto cuadro de época, entre la comedia picaresca y el drama romántico, con sólo una excusa para verlo: el regreso protagónico de Michelle Pfeiffer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2010

Director Stephen Frears made a nice job of The Queen but this is 'King awful.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2010

In general, the film's preoccupation with hairstyle, clothing and decor goes hand in hand with a thematic passivity.

| Jul 6, 2010

Frears does a fine job of capturing the look of turn-of-the-century France, as well as the essence of Colette's story.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 26, 2009

Clever, charming, and slightly superficial, Cheri is the kind of pert period piece that gets by on a great deal of creative goodwill.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 22, 2009

(T)he chemistry of these performers makes it not just believable but almost inevitable: emotionally guarded beauties who inadvertently allow affection into their relationship.

| Oct 19, 2009