Earns its classic status with its mature take on an unlikely fairy tale spawning from less-desirable origins.

| Mar 23, 2025

This is a textbook example of how perfect casting can elevate a film beyond the limitations of its premise and plot.

| Nov 17, 2023

The impersonal direction is Garry Marshall's, whose work here amounts to a glistening mixture of sleaze and misogynist clichés.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | May 9, 2023

It fits into the romance genre but it has some disgusting ideas to impart about what you can get out of a relationship and how men and women view each other. It’s misogynistic in its treatment of female characters who are not Ward...

| Feb 7, 2023

The intelligence and wit of this glass-slipper heart-of-gold fantasy are shocking too, but hell hath no part of the surprise.

| Dec 7, 2022

Pretty Woman is a fable, but Julia Roberts is fabulous. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 16, 2022

Pretty Woman is just a bit of consumerist entertainment that is fun whilst it’s on the screen but leaves a very bad taste in your mouth afterwards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2022

...an exceedingly entertaining example of the romantic-comedy genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2022

"Pretty Woman" is a story of second chances and the grace of getting elevated from a life of depravity to one of luxury and beauty-due, ultimately, to compassion.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 17, 2021

...steps away from all slapstick potential, and serves up a story that's finely balanced between male and female fantasy...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2021

An unequalled exercise in modern, mature romance, which would garner Roberts a Best Actress Academy Award nomination and a lengthy streak of box office stardom.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 24, 2020

Pretty Woman is packed with guilty pleasures. It's a fresh, beguiling bottom-drawer Pygmalian that entertains despite its worn premise.

| Mar 30, 2020

But in the end, what's most ridiculous about the film isn't the lack of realism.

| Feb 5, 2019

Originally meant to be a serious drama (called $3,000) about a man buying a prostitute for the night, this turned into a delightful romantic comedy in the hands of director Garry Marshall and sent the career of star Julia Roberts into the stratosphere.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2019

Despite its cornball attributes-maybe because of them-this is a sweetheart of an old-fashioned romantic comedy.

| Feb 5, 2019

The message is plain: Men, especially rich men, have all the power. So be sure to do what they tell you, and maybe they'll treat you nicely.

| Feb 5, 2019

Between a woman who sells her body and a man who sells shares there is no difference: There was no greater example of postmodernity than this. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 5, 2019

[T]here's nothing light about this movie's comic touch.

| Feb 5, 2019

The movie's most outrageous high-concept moment - the stretch limo, private jet, opera - is pure camp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2019

The Roberts smile - full-lipped, a mile wide and gleaming - is the closest the movies have yet come to capturing sunshine. Such dazzle should not be taken lightly.

| Feb 5, 2019