Writer-director Steve Kloves glides you through a romantic fantasy that has a forties-movie sultriness and an eighties movie-struck melancholy.

| Sep 12, 2023

Technically and emotionally, The Fabulous Baker Boys is the work of a rich and surprising intellect.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2023

All three stars are superb, but it's Pfeiffer's smart and sexy performance that quickly became a thing of legend.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2023

Almost the best movie of the year. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 29, 2022

Smooth, sultry, and tinged with an inescapable sadness, this is a film worth revisiting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 21, 2020

I can't deny that I had a very pleasant time watching 'The Fabulous Baker Brothers', the film that marks the directorial debut of Steve Kloves. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 3, 2020

Pfeiffer is like a nightclub singer the catwoman dragged in...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 6, 2020

Engaging as the film is, its inconsequentiality soon begins to grate on the nerves.

| Apr 11, 2019

The fun part is seeing it all play out, thanks to a standout cast and first-time director Steve Kloves' skill in handling them.

| Jul 28, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2008

What I really enjoyed about The Fabulous Baker Boys is the way it balances between the three key characters, as well as the outside world that they're up against.

| Apr 4, 2007

Writer/director Steve Kloves (this was his first film) keeps his characters grounded as people...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2007

Kloves' directorial debut features three superlative performances by Jeff and Beau Bridges (as bickering siblings) and particularly Michelle Pfeiffer, who's at her sexiest with a show-stopping number atop a piano in red dress!

| Original Score: A- | Jan 29, 2007

Much of the credit must go to the actors, with the Bridges brothers making a superb double act.

| Jan 26, 2006

A completely engaging, thoroughly entertaining romantic comedy structured entirely on the strength of its main characters. One of the ten-best of 1989.

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