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 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

[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

The soundtrack, including the Roy Orbison classic that gave the movie its name, is bopping, and the pacing is breezy. Gere is charismatic, and he and Roberts have a subtle chemistry, a complicity that you want to share.

| Jul 23, 2018

The movie displays an almost preternatural disregard for women's feelings - call it Pygmalion, with a heavy accent on the first syllable - but the comedy is so slickly delivered that audiences may be content with chuckling over its polished surface ...

| Mar 23, 2017

It's all fairly unconvincing - but its heart is roughly in the right place.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2010

This is old-fashioned, assembly-line moviemaking without the old panache.

| Feb 3, 2009

Pic's casting is astute, with Gere underplaying like a sturdy ballet star who hoists the ballerina Roberts on his shoulders.

| Apr 9, 2008

Low on real social comment, this modern fable still has more than enough chemistry between its leading pair to rake in the box-office rewards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2008

It's saying Roberts' character becomes a better person when she lands a rich guy and learns to cry at the opera.

| Original Score: D | Apr 9, 2008

He pays her $3,000 and they fall in love -- ain't Hollywood grand?

| Apr 9, 2008

For a film that attempts to satirise snooty materialism, it focuses too pantingly on the designer labels, and comes down firmly on the side of 'rich is better'.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2005

It is something special.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

Pretty Woman seduces all but the most wary.

| Jan 1, 2000

The sweetest and most openhearted love fable since The Princess Bride.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A slick, instantly and entertainingly digestible Cinderella fable.

| Jan 1, 2000

As shamelessly irresistible as the Roy Orbison oldie that accompanies the credits.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000