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Movie critics combined give Venus (2006) a score of 3.1889 out of 4
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Venus (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Venus is a magnificent tribute to actors by filmmakers who know they are the essential human material of theater and the screen. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Told with wit, genuine poignancy and all kinds of humor, Venus charts the unlikely relationship between a man in his 70s and a young woman more than half a century his junior. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for New York Post (Kyle Smith)New York Post (Kyle Smith)
A sublime meditation that is one of this year's wisest, warmest and funniest films. ...read the complete Venus movie review at New York Post (Kyle Smith)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Peter O'Toole in an Academy Award caliber performance as a veteran actor who opens our hearts to the bounties of a life animated by kindness and pleasure. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Newsday (John Anderson)Newsday (John Anderson)
The script by Hanif Kureishi is smart, witty, understated and fits O'Toole to a T. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Newsday (John Anderson)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Peter O'Toole's Maurice isn't one of those stock characters, like the Lovable Codger or the Misanthropic Coot, we know from sweet Britflicks about lives begun at 70. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
O'Toole's glides through his performance as the twinkling debaucher like a dancer sweeping across a ballroom floor, light on his feet, making it seem easy. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
The ruined beauty of Peter O'Toole permeates every frame of Venus , a movie that exists for almost no other reason than to allow us to worship at the altar of this incomparable actor. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.64 out of 4 stars for Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
A man can be a treasure just as a work of art can be, and O'Toole is one of the handful of living film actors worthy of a museum of his own. Venus would make a brilliant final exhibit. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Venus belongs to O'Toole. This is, hands down, my favorite performance of the year, largely because I love the way O'Toole (and the filmmakers) refuse to yield to the all-too-pervasive idea that it's "icky" for old people to even think about sex. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Venus may be a leering male fantasy, but it is also, improbably but persuasively, a love story as tender as it is transgressive. It's a wry celebration of the tyranny of beauty, and the tragicomic way in which desire outruns the betrayals of dying flesh. ...read the complete Venus movie review at LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Witty dialog and a strong story keep it thoroughly entertaining, as do the sparky performances. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Newsweek (David Ansen)Newsweek (David Ansen)
A heartbreaking comedy that is simultaneously funny and sad, raunchy and sweet, funky and elegiac. These fresh, unexpected juxtapositions are a specialty of the writer Hanif Kureishi ("My Beautiful Laundrette"), a sworn enemy of cliché. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Newsweek (David Ansen)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.56 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
The quiet respect Venus displays toward lions in winter, defanged though they may be, is rare enough; the film's respect for unfinessed lionesses-to-be is rarer still. Wherever they're going, no one here is going quietly. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Peter O'Toole, still a British cinematic lion at 74, performs another movie miracle in the Roger Michell-Hanif Kureishi film Venus. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Venus is rollickingly funny at times -- but there's an undercurrent of extraordinarily clear-eyed sadness. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
The great thing about Venus - apart from its sharp eye for the daily routines and drab details of senior citizenry in a buzzing metropolis - is that it isn't soppy, or sentimental. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.52 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Peter O'Toole, looking frail beyond his 74 years, gives what may be his farewell performance as a leading movie actor in Roger Michell's Venus. It's one for the books - and maybe the Oscars, too. ...read the complete Venus movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Laura Emerick)Chicago Sun-Times (Laura Emerick)
With wonderful testaments like Lawrence , Lion and now Venus , O'Toole will always live on. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Laura Emerick)
Venus (2006) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
O'Toole gives a magnificent old-lion performance...in a role that allows both subtlety and theatrical vigor. ...read the complete Venus movie review at Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
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Venus (2006) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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3.1889
Venus (2006) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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