Quills: Critic Reviews

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Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

90

It argues its case fairly, acknowledging the implicit dangers in its position, and dramatizing the price that inevitably will be paid for its cherished goal of untrammeled personal expression.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

70

Geoffrey Rush plays this rascal to the magnificent hilt.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

It breathes, it twirls, it prances right up into your face. It swirls over the top sometimes, but there never is any doubt you're watching a movie about something.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jane Sumner Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

The Gothic tale grabs the eyeballs and keeps them transfixed to the screen.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Steven Rosen Denver Post (Top Critic)

A rare Hollywood movie that is about the nature of eroticism without being afraid of its own power to arouse.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

Kaufman ... finds a tone that remains more entertaining than depressing, more absorbing than alarming.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

Gives us an anatomy of fear, images both silken swift and molten hot, scenes that disrupt and inflame the imagination.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Desmond Ryan Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

More heavy-handed than memorable.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

Kaufman is one of the great, underappreciated maestros of the movies, and his work here is indeed masterly.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Matt Wolf Associated Press (Top Critic)

The material benefits from a top-rank cast that fleshes out what could seem merely an exercise in philosophy.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

59

Philip Kaufman's biopic of the notorious Marquis de Sade is sharply uneven, by turns serious, poignant, trashy, sleazy and sensationslist, boasting an over-the-top turn from oscar-nominated Geoffrey Rush
Full Review » 1 year ago
John A. Nesbit Old School Reviews

67

a conceptual piece about the nature of creativity and questions of art
Full Review » 2 years ago
Judith Egerton Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

88

While it is horrible and sordid, it's also witty, fast-paced and intriguing as it explores freedom of expression.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Harry Guerin RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

80

You'll swear you can hear a throaty cackle of approval from the hereafter.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

88

Kaufman and writer Doug Wright (adapting his own play) infuse the film with a decadent playfulness befitting a film about the Marquis.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

80

E uma pena que o Oscar, ao contrario de outras premiacoes, nao possua uma categoria de 'Melhor Elenco'.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeremy Heilman MovieMartyr.com

75

This simplicity in its anti-censorship message keep it from achieving the greatness that it strives for.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael W. Phillips, Jr. Goatdog's Movies

80

If Ismael Merchant and James Ivory ... decided to make a film about Hell, it would look like this.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Ian Waldron-Mantgani UK Critic

88

Kaufman here reminds us why he was once one of the most high profile directors
Full Review » 10 years ago
Gabriel Shanks Mixed Reviews

92

It is much, much more than a political tract -- indeed, it is a mesmerizingly told tale.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Andrew Manning Radio Free Entertainment

Geoffrey Rush steals the show as a charismatic madman, but the story is too dated to resonate beyond its little corner of history.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Karina Montgomery Cinerina

I'm glad I saw it, but I wish I could unsee it somehow.
Full Review » 11 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

80

...fairly oozes with delicious irony.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio

An exhilarating, stunningly mounted, vigorously intelligent and oddly poetic tale also about the sadistic social institutions impinging on human history.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat

88

Quills valiantly argues that bold ideas can not - and should not - be stopped.
Full Review » 11 years ago