It has a rather dull premise, with a focus on tulip economics in the 17th century.

| Aug 8, 2022

Such a fascinating moment in Dutch history is deserving of a far better vehicle than an episode of Hollyoaks produced by Harvey Weinstein.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2018

The film's centre doesn't hold.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 22, 2017

It's all instantly forgettable. Except for the tulips - which, for the record, look stellar.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 7, 2017

Director Justin Chadwick and screenwriter Tom Stoppard can't find a pulse, let alone set the heart racing.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 7, 2017

There are worse movies than Tulip Fever. There are also, inevitably, better ones.

| Sep 5, 2017

This handsomely mounted and dully executed film boasts no shortage of Oscar favorites in the cast. It's as pretty as a flower, but it needs some air to bloom.

| Sep 3, 2017

To paraphrase Bill Murray's famous line from Tootsie, the long-delayed Tulip Fever is one nutty 17th century melodrama.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 2, 2017

All told, this movie about love during a bubble is a bust.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 1, 2017

Forget fever -- this floral-scented fiasco is so lifeless you can barely feel a pulse.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 1, 2017

Under close analysis, none of this elaborate subterfuge makes much sense, but the film is so polished in its technical proficiency that I found the absence of logic forgivable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2017

As Chadwick piles on the coincidences and misdirections, the movie finally collapses under its own schematic weight, and wilts to the ground.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 1, 2017

A film that's been repeatedly edited into a bizarre, boring final product that packs as much punch as a light sneeze or a gentle cough. A fever it is not.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 1, 2017

Tulip Fever's second half is a harvest of stupidity, with mistaken identities, overheard conversations and characters conveniently swept away by circumstance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2017

It is your run-of-the mill period drama that plays it safe - certainly not daring enough to offend or to truly captivate.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2017

It's often difficult to tell whether Tulip Fever is supposed to be soap or farce (probably neither, but there is just enough genuine comic relief amidst the sudsy absurdity to confuse the issue).

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 1, 2017

At 107 minutes, Tulip Fever has been trimmed of every ounce of fat. But connective tissue, muscle and even the heart are gone too, leaving a lifeless frame.

| Sep 1, 2017

It's not that Tulip Fever is incompetently made or unpleasant to look at or offensive in any way. It's just that it is very, very boring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2017

After a long, circuitous route to the screen, it arrives not as a lusty tale in full bloom, but as a tastefully arranged still life in search of an animating spark.

| Sep 1, 2017

[Tulip Fever is] lush and boisterous and crammed with the sort of arts gossip and commerce trivia that go nicely with gilded frames and talk of tulip futures.

| Sep 1, 2017