Everett has captured Wilde's very essence in this very strong biopic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2021

All the workings of a forever unsatiated desire laid bare, in minute detail and unsavory stain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021

It's an impressive film in many ways, yet it often feels like a drastic, fragmentary condensation of a longer, more satisfying one...

| Oct 21, 2020

A dreamy take on the poet, playwright and novelist's final ruinous days in Paris.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2020

Everett seems more intent than anything on cementing his legacy as an under-appreciated genius of the arts, [. . . using] Wilde as a role to meet his weepy agenda.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2020

Everett's performance in The Happy Prince is nothing short of astonishing and full of nuances that paint Wilde as both magnificent and grotesque.

| Jul 1, 2020

The Happy Prince is a great jumping-off point for Wilde newbies.

| Jun 1, 2020

A well-meaning but much too depressing biopic on the controversial and celebrated genius 19th century Irish playwright, poet and great wit, Oscar Wilde.

| Original Score: B | Mar 6, 2020

By turns melancholy, witty, brutal, and sensual, the film is distinguished by its artful weave of time and memory, and by Everett's uncompromising performance as Wilde during his final years.

| Mar 5, 2020

The Happy Prince says that love, friendship, and strength of character are the only currencies that matter in life's fickle economy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2019

A simple biopic that transpires an authentic devotion from Rupert Everett. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2019

A resounding and artistic film by Rupert Everett, who has written, produced and directed almost as a life project. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 29, 2019

An Oscar Wilde rarely seen, and very necessary to see today. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2019

[It's] a rather heavy, sad film albeit a well-acted and beautifully photographed one

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2019

A film that really wants to innovate, but doesn't quite get there. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 15, 2019

Really this is all about Everett, who tried to get the film made for many years and, it must be said, considers himself something of an Oscar Wilde-type figure offscreen.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 5, 2019

Everett's direction is full of beautiful surfaces and witty lines, but there's not much beneath them.

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

In the role of his career and his directing debut, Rupert Everett shines brightly as the troubled literary genius, Oscar Wilde during his final years.

| Mar 19, 2019

Actor Rupert Everett's mistitled The Happy Prince marks his debut as a film director, and the subject matter is clearly close to his heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2019

This respectful ode may feel more like a lurid slog, but one that will stay with you long after the vivacious rogue draws his final breath.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2019