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Lolita (1962) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Lolita (1962) a score of 2.9064 out of 4

based on (22) reviews

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IMDB.com

But as unfaithful as it is the novel, "Lolita" is surprisingly remarkable. It has a kind of weird comic feel to it, with small chuckles coming out of scenes that are funny because of character, not situation. And it has a kind of Sophoclean depth to it, ...read the complete Lolita movie review at IMDB.com

IMDB.com

Although Nabokov himself wrote the screenplay and although he praised the film in later interviews, many fans of the novel accuse Kubrick of unfaithfulness to the film's literary source. Many of those people forget that the best novels are often very ...read the complete Lolita movie review at IMDB.com

filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

When a character's name enters the language as a general descriptor of a similar person, you know you're dealing with a classic. Lolita is exactly that film -- and the story of one man's obsession with his stepdaughter is so well-known it scarcely ...read the complete Lolita movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

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