[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

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

Thorough and pleasurable - if lightweight...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 25, 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

38 years after his death, Beaton's name is not so much on everyone's lips, and one of the pleasures of this film is to revisit his gifts beyond his best known work, the Oscar-winning production design and costumes for "My Fair Lady."

| Jul 19, 2018

An unavoidable shortcoming of the documentary is the absence of Beaton's peers. Somewhat making up for that is an even more dazzling lineup of period film clips and vintage photographs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 19, 2018

Listening to the combination of recitation and words is the perfect embodiment of why Beaton is so compelling. He captures the beauty of a time gone by while also being enamored that he lives within it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 16, 2018

"Love, Cecil" demonstrates how a documentary can be a magical experience.

| Jul 11, 2018

Beaton's more-is-more approach makes for a feast for the eyes.

| Jun 28, 2018

The documentary, "Love, Cecil," directed with energy and affection by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, doesn't grapple with that question, and doesn't have to.

| Jun 28, 2018

Lisa Immordino Vreeland's avoidance of a serious analytical bent ends up stifling the documentary.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2018

The film is intelligent, thorough and sympathetic, with Rupert Everett narrating Beaton's diaries. But it never quite persuades you that Beaton really deserves to be considered a substantial artist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2017

Cecil Beaton is the name and hagiography's the game in this documentary portrait that collapses at the feet of its subject.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2017

Any modicum of interest stems only from the charisma of its subject.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 30, 2017

This glossy doc about Cecil Beaton plumbs the shallows of the famous stylist, royal photographer and self-professed Edwardian dandy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2017

Vreeland's willingness to include painful as well as flattering details is what gives Love, Cecil its punch.

| Sep 7, 2017