The People vs. Larry Flynt fairly levitates, but when Love's around it takes off.

| Dec 27, 2022

It’s funny and absorbing. And also slippery and superficial. It has moments of greatness and power, and moments of shameless preaching-to-the-converted.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 1, 2022

Woody Harrelson is great as the eccentric, rebellious porn mogul Larry Flynt and 25 years later Milos Formans film is still relevant and just damn entertaining.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 25, 2022

The entertainment value waxes and wanes as this biography largely sticks to Flynt's actual endeavors.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 24, 2020

Excellent biopic of notorious pornographer; sex, cursing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2020

It's been a long, dumb spell, but The People vs. Larry Flynt makes it OK to take your brain to the movies again.

| Oct 18, 2008

An exultant comedy of American repression and revolt.

| Original Score: A | Jun 30, 2008

A brave, spectacularly entertaining -- and unexpectedly stirring -- account of Flynt's life that asks us to regard the publisher of Hustler magazine as an invaluable champion of our First Amendment freedoms.

| Jun 30, 2008

Long after you've grown tired of his escapades, the scenes in which he and Althea support one another against the slings an arrows of outrageous fortune are touching and, ultimately, genuinely tragic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 30, 2008

One of the truly bizarre careers in recent American cultural life provides the source of tart and tasty amusement in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2008

Woody Harrelson plays Flynt with energy, and Courtney Love does at least as well as his wife.

| Jun 30, 2008

We're really celebrating Hollywood's freedom to create biographies of anyone, no matter how high or low on the social ladder, and still come up with the same banal characteristics, messages and conclusions.

| Jun 30, 2008

The movie is a lot of fun for long stretches.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

The exploitative misogyny of Flynt's output is never examined, the prurient hypocrisy and intolerance of his persecutors seriously overplayed, plus Larry and Althea's odd romance lacks bittersweet conviction.

| Feb 9, 2006

I sincerely hope The People Versus Larry Flynt goes all the way and wins the Academy Award.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Funny, fascinating, and maybe just a little unsettling.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 15, 2005

The screenplay, by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, is rich in detail and dialogue.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 9, 2005

Proof that you can find patriotism in the most unlikely of places.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2004

The latest movie from the great director Milos Forman is a sensational, irreverent docudrama. And, as they say in the porno trade, it's adult entertainment.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 1, 2004

I dug it.

| May 30, 2003