...an erratic yet sporadically electrifying drama...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2024

There is simply no denying the strengths of “Virginia Woolf”, but your overall enjoyment may depend on your tolerance levels.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? presents marital dysfunction at its most cruel, and alcoholism at its most explosive. Albees dialogue guts as deep and hard as any barb in the history of the moviesor just about anywhere else.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2022

A rambunctious, wholly singular four-person show.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 27, 2020

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? is easily the most sensational film of the year.

| Jun 27, 2019

One of the defining American films of the 1960s.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 28, 2018

'60s drama about dysfunctional marriage has drinking, sex.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2016

I could watch Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton do this for hours.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2016

It's one of the Academy's black marks that Burton didn't win the Best Actor Oscar for his remarkable, career-capping performance.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 14, 2016

[Haskell Wexler's] camera work is highly expressive, using odd angles, unusual close-ups, and handheld shots to mirror the out-of-kilter nature of the characters' worlds.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 13, 2016

Taylor has the capacity to be dowdy yet glamorous, crude yet sensual at the same time. This is a career best performance for her.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 22, 2016

[Taylor] is nothing less than brilliant as the shrewish, slovenly. blasphemous, frustrated, slightly wacky, alcoholic wife of a meek, unambitious assistant professor of history at a university, over which her father reigns as president.

| Mar 10, 2015

Nichols has actually committed all the classic errors of the sophisticated stage director let loose on the unsophisticated movies. For starters, he has underestimated the power of the spoken word in his search for visual pyrotechnics.

| Mar 10, 2015

Should your front room be in need of redecoration, then Elizabeth Taylor's performance here is guaranteed to strip the paint off the walls with just one verbal volley.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2015

The greatest credit for the implacable engagement that the film creates for its audience must go to the director, Mike Nichols. Nichols makes a stunning film bow with Virginia Woolf.

| Nov 20, 2014

"I am the earth mother, and you are all flops," Martha proclaims toward the end, and Taylor never had a line of dialogue that better suited her fighting maternal spirit.

| May 22, 2011

A time capsule now of all that was considered controversial and gutsy in 1966.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2010

A painful and compelling masterpiece.

| Feb 26, 2010

Scathing scream of a black comedy that's based on a play by Edward Albee.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 2, 2008

Director Nichols, in his auspicious Hollywood debut, and scripter Ernest Lehman smartly keep Albee's corrosively witty black comedy intact, allowing their ensmeble, including Liz Taylor, to dig deep and turn intensely entertaining performances.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 29, 2007