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Lolita (1998) Movie Reviews
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Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
For all of their vaunted (and, it turns out, false) fidelity to Nabokov, Lyne and Schiff have made a pretty, gauzy Lolita that replaces the book's cruelty and comedy with manufactured lyricism and mopey romanticism....read the complete Lolita (1998) review at Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
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Slate (Louis Menand)
Lyne has created, from a screenplay by Stephen Schiff, an earnest movie about a man who, by falling in love with his emotionally immature stepdaughter, ends up destroying himself....read the complete Lolita (1998) review at Slate (Louis Menand)
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Variety (David Rooney)
The bad news, however, is that after an intriguing opening stretch, and despite Jeremy Irons' potent lead performance, the overlong film becomes repetitive, flat and often dull....read the complete Lolita (1998) review at Variety (David Rooney)
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LA Weekly (Manohla Dargis)
Irons' doleful lassitude sucks the energy right out of the story and makes this listlessly directed adaptation droop all the more....read the complete Lolita (1998) review at LA Weekly (Manohla Dargis)
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