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

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

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

There are enough glorious songs, energetically warbled by a host of modern pop stars, to keep us enthralled.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2004

The results ... are staid, with re-creations of Paris in the Jazz Age and Hollywood in its Golden Age that are like waxworks in motion.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

A wildly uneven musical biography of Cole Porter.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 22, 2004

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2004

Porter's songs keep much the film afloat when, otherwise, it would have sunk. No matter how turgid or murky the movie becomes, when the music starts, you're flying.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2004

Entertaining. With more than 30 Cole Porter songs and an accomplished cast, how can it not be?

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 16, 2004

The story is sad. The music is witty, wary, impassioned and delightful. The balance is what makes De-Lovely special.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 16, 2004

Porter's music is made for movies, and just about anywhere else, but maybe the man himself wasn't.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2004

This hybrid of psychological investigation, musical celebration and period drama is a muddle.

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

Never gets under your skin -- neither yours nor, for that matter, Cole Porter's.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 15, 2004

Bungled, empty and tortuously constructed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2004

It is my sad duty to tell you it is wooden, artificial, contrived, infuriating and as phony as an invitation to bring along a tape recorder to dinner with J.D. Salinger.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2004

If for no other reason (and there are assuredly other reasons), I recommend De-Lovely to my readers for its honorable role in opening another door to our ridiculously repressed past.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2004

This elegant production beautifully captures a time and place that no longer exists -- and perhaps never did -- except in song.

| Jul 9, 2004

Surprisingly uninvolving.

| Jul 2, 2004

The movie has the air of something that's been in the morgue's icebox for a week.

Full Review | Jul 2, 2004

Kevin Kline does a fine job portraying Porter as he's written. But the script is missing much of the complexity and some of the humanity of the composer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 2, 2004

The songs are too plentiful, even for a musical, and pop up with no discernible rhyme or reason -- they aren't performed in chronological order and often fail to fit even the mood of a scene.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 2, 2004