Beatty's lofty ambitions for this project are undone by the story and presentation's general unevenness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2022

Viewers who can get on the film's wavelength will find much to enjoy, but there's no denying the picture is slight in the extreme.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 17, 2021

Written, directed and starring Warren Beatty (playing Hollywood eccentric and legendary billionaire Howard Hughes) this is a love story of sorts to the era of Golden Hollywood...

| Apr 13, 2021

A handsome movie that lives up to its name. The strict rules of romantic comedy, drama and biography don't apply here. It's a wistful confection, sometimes frothy, sometimes idiosyncratic, that feels like it might have sprung from the era it portrays.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2021

The film may be less "masterful" than Oscar-hungry pundits might expect from someone as legendary as Beatty, but it's better than masterful - it's personal.

| Jan 4, 2021

The film is poorly made, choppy and rambling.

| Aug 13, 2020

Rules Don't Apply has bigger problems than underusing its acting talent. The truth is, it's not about anything.

| Apr 28, 2020

Mixing notes of nostalgia with a parody of not just Hughes' outlandish behavior but the cultural mores of the period, it's a welcome return to the screen for Beatty both in front of and behind the camera.

| Oct 3, 2019

The real problem is the script, because it gives the impression that it never decides what story it really wants to be. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 15, 2019

This film experiences large amounts of drag. A who's who of Hollywood in supporting roles...and fine, vintage production design, however, avoid it being a total plane wreck.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2019

It's nice that Warren Beatty was able to bring his passion project to the big screen. I only wish that it had been something better.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 14, 2019

Though Rules Don't Apply is undeniably Beatty's show, the true breakout is lead Alden Ehrenreich.

| Original Score: B | Nov 5, 2018

Rules Don't Apply is a movie that's uneven in its construction but is able to coast by due to three solid performances from its cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2018

All in all, Rules Don't Apply is ... uneven. The film suffers from trying to do too much. Had it been either a romance ... character study, the movie could have been stellar.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2018

Has all the potential to be an exceptional romantic drama especially from the performances by the leads if it wasn't hampered with frantic pacing and incredibly choppy editing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 30, 2018

In a season filled with heart-wrenching, disturbing, and depressing films (many of them excellent, mind you), Rules Don't Apply is a fun and welcome escape.

| Aug 26, 2018

No one could rein in Hughes, and no one reigns in "Rules Don't Apply." It's an intriguing but saggy excursion through Old Hollywood via the eyes of an underdeveloped character.

| Aug 23, 2018

The kids are all right, but with a hammier-than-thou Beatty around no-one else gets much of a look-in.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2018

[Rules Don't Apply] is an entertaining and surprisingly low-key portrait of excess.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2017

Warren Beatty's comeback movie is a sometimes bizarre, sometimes winning film about multi-hyphenate billionaire Howard Hughes (Beatty) in 1959 and 1964...

| Dec 27, 2017