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44 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Richard James Havis
    70
    The result is a pleasingly discursive film that depicts Klimt and the ideals and locales of fin de siecle Vienna.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    Raoul Ruiz's absurdly overwrought phantasmagoria tries to recast the notorious Viennese artist's life as a kind of Divine Comedy: Inferno.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    50
    Ruiz is so intent on harnessing the painter to his own -- here, rather arid -- relativism that he never manages to convey the unfettered eros that brings crowds flocking to exhibitions of Klimt's work, even as critics hold their noses.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    Klimt comes alive only fitfully at best, and it seems that for those occasional moments when it comes into focus there is an equal number that are merely silly.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    50
    The shortened version is lovely to look at, but the stilted dialogue and crude overdubbing in scenes where English is not spoken often make it an impenetrable hodgepodge.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jay Weissberg
    40
    Billed as a phantasmagoria rather than a biopic, Klimt falls into the philosophical conundrum it attempts to resurrect -- whether portrait and allegory can coexist. Notwithstanding moments of great beauty, in this case the answer is clearly "no."
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Leba Hertz
    25
    A good bio of any historical character has to have a compelling story, whether evil or good. Klimt appears to have had that story. I sure would have liked to know what it was.
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