An old fashioned, rousing musical with some of the most spectacular singing and dancing numbers ever filmed.

| Jun 16, 2022

It relies almost exclusively on the celebrated eyes, ears, nose and throat of Streisand. Her musicianship remains irreproachable. But her mannerisms are so arch and calculated that one half expects to find a key implanted in her back.

| Apr 2, 2019

Emphasis has been placed on extravaganza, when it should really have been placed on getting good performances out of a talented cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2019

...fares best with the ensemble dance numbers that elegantly combine group movement and individual footwork.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2019

It's an exercise in star turns, surrounded by elephantine blandness.

| Mar 26, 2019

Hello, Dolly! is only the fourth best screen musical of 1969, and I find that a relaxing thought.

| Mar 26, 2019

Gene Kelly directed, a long way from Terpsichore apparently, though not, alas, from the Thanksgiving turkey.

| Mar 26, 2019

The design, use of colour and, particularly, the marvellous score are quite breathtaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2019

[Barbra Streisand] was really too young for the role... But she was certainly in fine voice, making more of the songs by Jerry Herman than did Herman himself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2019

This is a flawed movie, there's no question of that, but at the same time there are some enjoyable moments.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2019

For all its failures in other areas - a bloated, heavy farce, or a character comedy full of generally tedious cartoons - its abysmal shortcomings as a musical are the saddest.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 27, 2014

A magical, old-fashioned musical.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 24, 2010

It is a work of great entertainment, a product of an era when people looked up at a screen and saw movies instead of cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 15, 2009

Streisand is a unique performer, with that inborn vitality which marks great personalities.

| Mar 26, 2009

Inexplicably nominated for Oscars, Gene Kelly's last musical is a big, bloated, stagy film--despite the presence, charm and voice of Barbra Streisand.

| Original Score: C | Mar 24, 2009

The movie creaks along to its happy ending, ultimately suffocating under way too many layers of brocade, velvet, and ostrich feathers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

It doesn't escape the overproduction trap, not by a long shot.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 19, 2007

The Jerry Herman score is unmemorable, Michael Kidd's choreography is foreshortened to accommodate yards of additional dialogue by Ernest Lehman, and the rest is Streisand capably doing her thing in a series of plushily colossal sets.

| Jun 24, 2006

[Director Gene Kelly and produce Ernest Lehmann] have been reverential to the point of idiocy, since, by preserving something basically thin and often witless on a large movie screen, they have merely inflated the faults to elephantine proportions.

| May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 7, 2005