After an enchanting two-thirds of a movie, Gigi not only loses its fizzle but also ceases making narrative sense.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2025

A gorgeous and colorful Parisian romp, though the musical that won the 1958 Oscar for Best Picture hasn't aged particularly well, especially in its gender dynamics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2023

Nobody captures Parisian romantic musicals quite like Vincente Minnelli did, so if you can get past the huge gap in age differences (she’s only 16), there is a lot of charm and beauty in the film.

| Jun 27, 2023

Gigi is spontaneous and uncalculating, her company fun precisely because there is no gamesmanship of sexual tension.

| Jun 2, 2023

Cecil Beaton, E. Preston Ames, F. Keogh Gleason, and Henry Grace were all credited as costume designers and they all did terrific work.

| Feb 2, 2023

Most of Gigi is in the Hollywood “big production" style at its most handsome and vivacious -- expensive froth carbonated by experts.

| Aug 17, 2022

Nine songs, sentimental and sardonic, and high-spirited, illustrate, decorate, amplify and develop the plot... They have the trick of singing in one's head without driving one off it, which marks the good popular tune. I find them captivating.

| Aug 8, 2022

Vincente Minnelli directed, in a confident, confectionery style.

| Jul 6, 2022

Gigi has more imaginative use of cinema than all our recent pseudo-realist movies put together.

| Apr 19, 2022

Gigi calls for all the carefree superlatives in the reviewer's usually begrudged lexicon: captivating, delightful, charming, touching, exhilarating.

| Mar 25, 2022

The Cecil Beaton costumes and settings add to the charm of a package that is going to be enjoyed by everyone in the family.

| Mar 25, 2022

In cast and direction, the Lerner-Loewe standard could not be more vivaciously served than by such players as Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron, and by a story painter as sure-eyed as Vincente Minnelli.

| Mar 25, 2022

Gigi had me enchanted by its fleetness, its charm, its discretion, its airborne aura of delight.

| Mar 25, 2022

Charm is a much abused word, but it is that elusive quality which marks this smooth, sophisticated musical from start to finish.

| Mar 25, 2022

Gigi is escape set to music -- a lovely voyage backward in time to a plush Parisian world of gentlemen in frock coats, ladies in trailing gowns and horse-drawn carriages in the Bois de Boulogne.

| Mar 25, 2022

It's a charming, two-hour Technicolor package and the main reason for its charm lies in its music.

| Mar 25, 2022

Gigi is one of those wonderful movies which have but one aim: to entertain. And because it sensibly restricted itself to that single purpose, it succeeds.

| Mar 25, 2022

You'll love it, if you are six or 60. The six-year-olds will see what's there. The in-between six and 60, men or women, will see reflections... A best bet if ever there was one.

| Mar 25, 2022

Director Vincente Minnelli and Producer Arthur Freed have taken a 3-million-dollar budget, four gifted performers, and the music of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to blend together a highly colorful and delightful two hours of entertainment.

| Mar 25, 2022

Vincente Minnelli, who won an Oscar for the best director, has put on to the screen the witty, cynical, but above all superbly stylish world of the late Colette, who was about the only one of the makers of Gigi who did not get an award.

| Mar 25, 2022