The music is eloquently timeless. The lyrics unparalleled, even illuminating. Yes, it's delightful, it's delicious, it's delectable...it's De-Lovely.

| Nov 7, 2019

Unfortunately, the film's post-modern staginess assists in keeping Porter endlessly at arm's length. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2011

Winkler indulges a large amount of screentime detailing these sexual leanings and complications, which disrupts the picture's balance between wannabe musical and straight up bio-pic.

| Original Score: C | May 3, 2011

The music is de-lovely, but not much else is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

More imagination than inquiry, this cautiously reverential tale reaches for aesthetic pleasure and emotion over insight.

Full Review | May 24, 2007

If you ignore the plot and just approach the flick as nothing more than a 21st century update of a Busby Berkeley-style musical, you will not be disappointed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2007

An earnest, well-meant musical biography that never quite has enough time between numbers to delve into the details of Porter's complicated life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2006

Performances crackling with an enthusiasm that indicates how much Porter's work continues to be loved and respected.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 30, 2005

Elegante e esteticamente admirável, este musical é um pouco mais longo do que deveria, mas as belas canções e os complexos planos concebidos por Winker acabam compensando.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2005

The production numbers recap Porter's life using his own music. The concept is nothing if not original but it's the execution that causes the greatest strife.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2005

...employs a bizarre structure that makes it virtually impossible to connect with anything or anyone on screen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 20, 2005

Emotionally week and distant, like watered-down soup. It provides poor nourishment.

| Original Score: C | Feb 2, 2005

An intelligent behind-the-scenes look at enduring love and enduring music.

| Dec 15, 2004

...if I didn't already enjoy the composer's music, this movie would never have swayed to like it.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 27, 2004

Kline and Judd are both good, but Cole Porter seems to have more sophistication than depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 24, 2004

The movie does offer insight into a man whose lyrics now are underscored with the deeper, hidden rhythms of truth.

| Original Score: B | Nov 16, 2004