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82
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81
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Alfie
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content, some language and drug use
Starring
Jude Law,
Marisa Tomei,
Susan Sarandon,
Nia Long,
Sienna Miller,
Jane Krakowski,
Omar Epps,
and
Graydon Carter
A stylish reinvention of the 1960's classic, Alfie is a humorous, sexy and often touching tale of a philosophical womanizer (Law) who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence. (Paramount)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Elaine Pope
Charles Shyer
Bill Naughton (play and earlier screenplay)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Charles Shyer
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 15, 2005
Video: March 15, 2005
Theatrical: November 5, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
What a bright, entertaining, cleverly updated and utterly satisfying comedy the new Alfie turns out to be.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Such smooth, crisp entertainment, you barely even notice it has nothing new to say.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Law is lively and Shyer keeps the action hopping with help from the movie's original gimmick of having Alfie keep up a running monologue to the audience.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Winda Benedetti
Ultimately though, this remake doesn't stand up to the original. And it's precisely because this new Alfie is more likeable and thus less challenging.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
On its own terms, it's funny at times and finally sad and sweet.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Where Caine was like an arsonist in his relationships, Law's Alfie is more like a kid playing with matches -- innocent and genuinely surprised when things start blowing up around him. Law makes Alfie's befuddlement a surprisingly poignant thing to witness.

70
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The comedy in Alfie is plentiful but bittersweet, and the character's bad behavior pleases more than it repels, principally because the star Jude Law's beauty and easy charm go a long way to softening the edges.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Pretty good as pretty good goes, with Jude Law turning in an efficiently chipper, if palpably less dark, performance than the one that earned Michael Caine his first Oscar nomination.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A breezy, sexy romp with a conscience that reflects in obvious but interesting ways on societal changes over the intervening 38 years.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The new Alfie is so irresistible that he hardly requires contempt. Without it, the movie is little more than a feature-length roll in the hay.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Though he's highly irresponsible, this Alfie is not quite a calculating heel, which makes the material go down easier while blunting the point.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
This is a mixed bag - passable entertainment made palatable largely by Law, but the question of "Why?" (more than "What's it all about?") still lingers where this remake is concerned.

63
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
Law owns every scene hes in--which is literally all of them--plus a decent supporting cast and dapper dialogue truly make for a breezy good time.

60
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Can't match the original's shock factor --abortion isn't the taboo subject it once was and the women of Sex and the City have helped make playing the field good, dirty fun.

60
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
In the original, extended, unrepentant bad behavior results in bad consequences for the protagonist. In the remake, it gets the character some life lessons and a personal growth spurt.

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Caine played Alfie as an incorrigible S.O.B. who at least made for good company. Law makes him a delicate boy with self-control problems who can't stop talking, and his charm runs out long before the film ends.

60
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
This new version, which retains nearly every character and echoes nearly every scenario, is somehow its complete opposite--a slight, breezy incarnation that tries like hell to dishearten, which only makes it disingenuous.

60
Empire
Dan Jolin
Law's slick, pretty-boy reincarnation is less icy and insensitive than Caine's wide-boy original, so we still have all the painfully confused "What's it all about?" soul-searching.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Alas, this is a remake without a reason. Alfie can no longer shock us.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The only touch of Caine's brutal sexiness is in the thrilling songs by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart that should win Sir Mick his first Oscar. The rest is marshmallow.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
The trouble with Alfie - apart from the film's existence, and the wrongheaded idea of remaking a minor classic - is that not a soul is likable.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Charles Shyer's update is a pointlessly tame romp.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Flaccid remake of a tough 1966 original.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The difference is that Michael Caine delivered the impossible; Jude Law can't.

50
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Just a series of episodes: it has no trace of the structure that has supported drama and comedy for two millennia.

40
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Indeed, remake hack Charles Shyer (who processed the Parent Trap and Father of the Bride updates) plays coy with most matters sexual -- an odd and puritanical approach to a character who molds his entire existence around the procurement and enjoyment of sex.

40
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Perhaps the more appropriate question to put to this remake would be "What the hells the point?"

38
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
This Alfie has been castrated.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
[Law] talks straight to the camera like the young Michael Caine, but this time our hunk has got zilch to say. That's because a bastard's candour is off-limits in today's politically correct market it just wouldn't be polite.

33
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
While his star, Jude Law, is infectiously watchable, Shyer's version of the material is tone deaf and splotchy.

30
Washington Post
Sean Daly
Occasionally amusing, technically lovely but ultimately dated.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
More concerned with attitude than character and too moralistic to be much fun.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This new Alfie is earnest -- irony is so last century -- and not angry at all, since working-class anger would mean nothing here, because class means nothing here. Nothing means anything here.
30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There's nothing authentic about this London lad ... Nothing particularly likable either.

25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Shyer's version is a thing of infinite emptiness and nauseating vanity. It's not funny, alluring, affecting, or erotic, just conceited.


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