“Vita & Virginia” is a sumptuous, early twentieth century period film in terms of costume design, sets, production values and casting.

| Jun 8, 2024

Unfortunately, the problem with this film is that the lives of the two women are too rich to be reduced to an almost-two-hour movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2023

Button’s adaptation of Atkins’ wonderful script doesn’t work. She never really finds the cinematic tools to move the material from the stage to the screen.

| Dec 7, 2022

The film is an engrossing look at the affair that would later inspire Woolf’s world-famous Orlando — not to mention, a worthy entry into the pantheon of queer historical biopics. Plus, Elizabeth Debicki. Need I say more?

| Oct 12, 2022

The real problem with Vita & Virginia is that Vita is so thoroughly unlikable and yet she looms large as the wan Virginia's love interest as well as the muse who inspired one of Woolf's oddest works.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2021

Director Button does a lot with weak material. It looks good, sounds good and is populated with actors doing great performances, but the dots somehow don't add up to make a satisfying biopic that justifies its existence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2021

Much of the dialogue in Vita and Virginia is scooped directly from love letters exchanged between the writers - which, unfortunately, makes for a rather cumbersome screenplay.

| Mar 15, 2021

"where Vita & Virginia excels; we are shown both the moments together and apart and left to judge for ourselves, where was their real passion: in their work and letters, or in their relationship?"

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 27, 2020

Vita and Virginia attempts to break free from biopic standards even as it nearly becomes handicapped by them.

| Sep 24, 2020

The film was really good, with Debicki especially giving a layered, riveting performance as Woolf.

| May 28, 2020

It's not as bold as that trio, but it's elevated by some adroit dialogue and knockout performances from Gemma Arterton as Vita Sackville-West, and Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia Woolf.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2020

Vita & Virginia is a gorgeously-appointed historical drama...

| Mar 12, 2020

It's not a pretty picture, but it's a true one, ad same-sex couples who've "been there" are sure to be thankful for Vita and Virgina as much as the Bloomsbury adepts who'll be certain to flock to it.

| Feb 10, 2020

Vita & Virginia just can't overcome its faults and succumbs to being another well-made period piece that misses its mark.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 19, 2020

Never mind the class struggle, mental illness, or heteronormativity at every corner: Chanya Button's film can't figure out which way to look.

| Jan 17, 2020

For those who remember The Hours or Sally Potter's Orlando, this is a terrific companion piece.

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

Maybe dramatizing their correspondence would have worked if it had been paired with convincing dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 20, 2019

It's an insufferable venture that completely misses the mark, despite the strong material at its foundation that begs to be explored.

| Oct 25, 2019

For many the film will ultimately succeed or fall on Elizabeth Debicki's depiction of Woolf as a wanly frail creature, forever on the verge of falling apart.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2019

The film finds greater depth and dimension in its side romances than in the one placed front-and-center.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 19, 2019