The screenplay takes a paint-by-numbers approach, but the director, Julie Taymor... supplies visual exuberance in the spirit of the film’s heroine.

| Dec 5, 2022

A little better than the run-of-the-mill artist picture, probably because the colorful lives of these figures have an interest that for many people exceeds the interest of their work–or at least enhances it...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2022

Taymors film doesnt shy away from Fridas struggles and her fierce determination to continue despite them. But it also delves into the real spirit of a painter, and the politics that turn the tides of culture.

| Feb 21, 2022

The strangest of birds - a film about a Communist, bisexual, hirsute, maverick artist aimed squarely at a mainstream audience - Frida may, in fact, turn out to be more radical than it first appears.

| Feb 4, 2020

Smart, willful, and perverse, this Frida is nobody's servant, and the tiny Hayek plays her with head held high. You may want to laugh now and then, but you won't look away.

| Jan 7, 2020

Salma Hayek finally ushered her dream project into production, but her impassioned lead performance lacks the necessary gravitas for the role, mistaking empty energy for wild fits of inspiration.

| Jan 7, 2020

The plodding, glumly literal screenplay holds this otherwise expressive biopic back, but it's still a colourful and entertaining watch.

| Original Score: B | Jan 6, 2020

One can imagine Taymor's glorious vision as a triumph of which Frida herself would approve.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

a pity that the project paints by the numbers so much

| Original Score: C | Jul 22, 2012

Sporting mustcahe, Selma Hayek gives a solid performance in the otherwise conventionl and mediocre biopic of the noted Spnish artist.

| Original Score: B- | May 5, 2011

Graphic biopic of artist Frida Kahlo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Taymor conveys in imaginative cinematic fashion how for Frida, creating art and living were one and the same.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2009

Actress Salma Hayek portrays the famed Mexican surrealist painter in a biopic that neither mythologizes nor decries the artist's accomplishments on or beyond the canvas.

| Jul 2, 2008

Taymor brings all of her artist's compassion to bear on a subject that deserves it. Hayek takes the screen and holds it with a playful animal fierceness.

| Original Score: A | Feb 13, 2008

It wasn't a bad idea to conceive of the film as an epic, complex love story between Frida and Rivera, but the passion between them is more rhetorical than palpable...Taymor and Hayak give us only the rough sketch of a wild soul.

| Nov 1, 2007

Salma Hayek earned an Oscar nomination for her fierce, passionate portrayal of the famous, iconic Mexican painter.

| Sep 22, 2007

[A]s in soap opera, drama is synonymous with the torments of love. Hayek is a brave, tireless performer, ... but given the script she can only play Kahlo the "beguiling personality" she liked to think of herself as ... rather than Kahlo the artist.

| Sep 26, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2005

Frida boasts a small galaxy of charismatic stars orbiting two appealing actors in the juiciest roles of their careers.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 6, 2004