It moves chronologically through the man's life with none of the style Beaton brought to his own life on display but narration by Rupert Everett, lifted directly from the photographer's own diaries, brings intimacy to the proceedings.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

This documentary tribute is colorful if somewhat frustrating, though that may be inevitable...

| Oct 15, 2020

Love, Cecil doesn't shy away from Beaton's contradictions or from his being something of a poseur -- at times he almost embraced the double life he was leading -- and that makes the film all the more watchable and substantive.

| Jun 17, 2020

Cecil is all here: from his outsize talent to his eagle eye, from his snobbery, class consciousness, and prejudice to his openness to the new, the spontaneous, and the visual knockout.

| Jun 1, 2020

[Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland's] best accomplishment is having gathered so much of Beaton's work from various disciplines into one place, so the full force of his aesthetic can be appreciated.

| Mar 27, 2020

There's no denying the talent of Cecil Beaton, nor the scale of his influence to this day. But whether you leave the documentary having warmed to him is another question altogether, and is part of what makes Vreeland's film such an intriguing watch.

| Oct 10, 2019

Vreeland makes a concerted effort to probe beyond the Cecil Beaton the world knows.

| Jan 8, 2019

Even with incredible access to his output, his personal diaries and his remaining friends, Vreeland is perhaps too respectful of her subject's secrets.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Dec 22, 2018

Juicy gossip aside, Vreeland's documentary introduces us to the work of a man who wrote, took pictures, designed and drew -- and did all of these with skill and a well-honed aesthetic.

| Sep 7, 2018

Love, Cecil isn't necessarily breaking new ground on the man, but director Lisa Immordino Vreeland's documentary is a complete, nuanced, entertaining portrait of an artist who, if alive today, would have an incredible Instagram.

| Sep 4, 2018

The film version of My Fair Lady is a ceremonious bore, and the viewer has Cecil Beaton's pompously sedentary, open-casket visual compositions to blame.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 31, 2018

The director doesn't set out to reinvent the wheel, but what her film lacks in inventiveness and creativity, it compensates in a willingness to explore the Renaissance man at its core with clarity and compassion.

| Aug 21, 2018

Love, Cecil uses Beaton's diaries as a primary source, and doesn't necessarily shy away from his darker side... For all his flaws, Cecil still offered a lot to love.

| Aug 2, 2018

There are hints of brilliance in how the documentary is constructed... It's unfortunate that the way Love, Cecil is paced, then, means that it's easy for your mind to wander.

| Jul 31, 2018

Beaton dismissed a flattering 온라인카지노추천 documentary about him as "inconclusive and superficial." The same, I'm afraid, could be said about Love, Cecil.

| Jul 31, 2018

The result is a perfectly pleasant film about a mostly-pleasant subject that ends up expressing little of lasting interest about its subject or the implications of his life.

| Original Score: 65/100 | Jul 31, 2018

A test of hagiographic patience that's more interested in Beaton's personality quirks than his career.

| Jul 27, 2018

Thorough and pleasurable - if lightweight...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 25, 2018

Rich in Beaton treasurers, from his avant-garde photos and illustrations, to the trove of film clips, recordings and journals.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 21, 2018

Cecil Beaton is one of those names that rings out in any history of 20th century art and culture. This entertaining and candid film explains why.

| Jul 20, 2018