It has some tragicomic moments that work with an endearing performance by O'Toole to dialogue about aging, passion and death, but the narrative is a bit soft. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 17, 2021

Despite an elegantly rendered interpretation of the dilemma of these aging men, Venus proves to be unnecessarily light fare...

| Sep 2, 2020

A master class in acting from the great Peter O'Toole is the calling card of this poised and involving comedy-drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 31, 2020

A starring vehicle for an aging star who receives deafening awards buzz not so much for the performance than, it seems, for simply being alive.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 20, 2012

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 9, 2011

It's a pleasure to have Peter O'Toole's company here - likely for the last time in a role of such magnitude & majesty, bangs still swept back in boyish wisps and his sky-blue eyes vibrant and hungry. A loving, lyrical, eloquent sonnet to elderly sunsets.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 22, 2010

Worth seeing for O'Toole's incorrigible twilight jesting

| Aug 28, 2009

While age may have devoured O'Toole's youth, it has been utterly unable to touch his blistering talent, or his eyes which still sparkle with rakish light.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 28, 2008

The only thing that resonated with me was O'Toole, who is at his playful best playing a role made to order for him of the boozer rascal who could charm a snake.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 22, 2008

Zinger lines, wonderful performances and a profound emotional authenticity distinguish a film about the relationship between an old actor and a young woman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2007

Superb acting on life's journey; not for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2007

Una comedia dramática agridulce donde brilla con luz propia el formidable Peter O'Toole, en un papel que tiene mucho de sí mismo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2007

There is consequently an authenticity to the movie that's intensified by O'Toole's expectedly masterful performance...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 4, 2007

What makes Venus unforgettable is not the fine direction and script, or Vanessa Redgrave's startling cameo as Maurice's suffering ex-wife, or Whittaker's award-worthy debut; it's that the viewer can't draw a line between O'Toole's career and Maurice's.

| Jun 8, 2007

...neither a romance nor a comedy but an engaging slice of life, a charming treat that reminds us how fragile life is.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 18, 2007

He quotes Shakespeare; she quotes Kylie Minogue.The plot takes an awkward turn about two-thirds of the way through, but up until then, Kureishi's screenplay offers an intriguing contrast of styles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2007

O'Toole's performance is full of wit and vigor and, even at Maurice's weakest, there is a sense of a man who lived life fully and partook of every pleasure available.

| May 7, 2007

Not winning the Oscar takes nothing away from Peter O'Toole's unforgettable performance as Maurice, a gifted, once devastatingly handsome man who, as the doleful lyrics of a recent Morrissey song state, falls in love even as he lies on his deathbed.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 16, 2007

Vênus se salva do fracasso graças ao veterano Peter O'Toole, que oferece uma performance digna do homem responsável por encarnar figuras inesquecíveis como T.E. Lawrence, o Rei Henry II e mesmo o absurdo Eli Cross.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2007