Cleopatra

  • 1963


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56 % Rotten
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Positive Reviews 23
Negative reviews 8
Average Rating 3.3/5
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4.0
CLEOPATRA is a remarkable achievement, and though by no means flawless, its a must see for the Hollywood completist.Much ado was made about this legen .. Common Sense Media
4.5
Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably lit .. Variety
1.5
Harrison, doing his waspish don act as Caesar, alone rises above mediocrity. Time Out
4.5
Power and passion are the twin and intertwined themes of Cleopatra, and they have never burned with greater intensity or amid such opulence as they do .. The Hollywood Reporter
5.0
Taylor, Burton, and Harrison are sublime in this sweeping epic of love and nations, a film that also earned Oscars for its cinematography, art directi ..
2.0
For four hours this moody, glossy pantomime leadenly plods on, saying much more about the hubris and excess of old time Hollywood thinking than the bu ..
3.1
Otherwise, its a Vegas style history lesson, but dammit, a boring one, depriving us of a thousand laughs and cracks. Tv Guide
3.0
The spectacle is the thing, yet, despite a multitude of screenwriters and sources, the film at least manages to make some sense of an extraordinary mo .. Radio Times
3.5
A lumbering monstrosity of a movie with all manner of preposterous hairstyles and improbable fashions. Worth seeing once anyway at least as wayward le .. Mountain X
3.0
Much maligned, this Cleopatra might be the most expensive movie made, but not the worst, just an overly verbose affair, effective as star vehicle for .. Emanuellevy
4.0
Joseph L Mankiewiczs four hour Cleopatra (1963) is a stately but sometimes mindboggling spectacle. Guardian
3.8
A moderately successful, generally entertaining, but overly ambitious movie. Q Network
4.0
There is nothing dry or staid about this dubious history lesson and by delivering such strong characters it succeeds in breathing life into the dead, .. Eye For Film
5.0
Joseph L. Mankiewiczs colossal four hour long spectacle, from 1963, is a personal artistic project of the highest order. New Yorker
1.5
Sad to say, however, the deep revolving, witty Mankiewicz fails most where most he hoped to succeed. As drama and as cinema, Cleopatra is raddled with .. Time
5.0
But it is primarily a vast, popular entertainment that sidesteps total greatness for broader appeal. Hollywood Reporter
4.0
FORGET the fantastic sum that Cleopatra is re ported to have cost. Ny Times
4.4
...a tale of two men being manipulated, and possibly loved, by a powerful and conflicted woman. Larsen On Film
2.0
The film has a spectacular variety of liabilities (and, to be fair, strengths as well), but the most visible and crushing is thats an utter dud as a s .. Antagony & Ecstasy
3.0
Melodramatic, and camp as Christmas, but nothing like the disaster its reputation suggests. Little White Lies
3.0
Far from the sumptuous sets that reproduce antiquity with a certain authenticity, Cleopatra is an epic spectacle to which I find nothing but an errati ..
3.0
A giant of a movie that is sometimes lumbering, but ever watchable thanks to its uninhibited ambition, size and glamour. Web Archive
1.5
As the sets seem to grow bigger and bigger, so progressively the players dwindle. OutWeek
4.5
Cleopatra will go down in film history as the most opulent, pictorially magnificent and eye filling screen spectacle ever made as well as the longest. OutWeek
2.2
The movie is also dotted with some battle sequences of nearly epic proportions, but they cant make up for Cleopatras shortcomings in plot and acting. Apollo Guide
4.5
As Lancelot, Wilde tussles doggedly with an implausible French accent, but his staging of the jarringly realistic battles is strong and confident. Maclean's Magazine
3.5
The National Hispanic Professional Organization (NHPO) RGV Chapter invites all business professionals to join for this months Networking Event from 6 .. The Monitor
1.5
Worth a look.... for a single performance: Rex Harrison as Caesar. Los Angeles Free Press
3.0
amazing that 20th Century Fox survived this train wreck long enough to produce Star Wars some 14 years later Old School Reviews
3.0
It may not be as compelling and tightly edited as Ben Hur, but Cleopatra is still a Hollywood epic that tells a grand story in a grand way. Family Home Theater
1.5
The spectacular scenes were confused and oddly minuscule... Still and all, there was Elizabeth Taylor. At first I was disappointed, a large statement .. Esquire Magazine



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