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

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

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

| Jan 26, 2006

It's a film specializing in smoky, down-at-the-heels glamour, and in the kind of smart, slangy dialogue that sounds right without necessarily having much to say.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 20, 2003

This is one of the movies they will use as a document, years from now, when they begin to trace the steps by which Pfeiffer became a great star.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A thoroughly enjoyable entertainment that should play just about everybody's strings right. Kloves proves to be quite a plucker.

| Jan 1, 2000

The Fabulous Baker Boys is like a beloved movie from the glory days of Hollywood. It transports you. It's an American rhapsody.

| Jan 1, 2000