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  • Starring: Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler
  • Summary: Liv Tyler stars as a nineteen-year old beauty who summers at a villa in Tuscany with a variety of artistic types after the death of her mother, who had stayed there years earlier.

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hal Hinson
    90
    What's more, Bertolucci's voice is stronger, clearer and more effortlessly confident than it has been in years. He's stolen the beauty of Tuscany and his youthful star and transformed it into an exquisite work of movie art.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    88
    Filmmakers of Bernardo Bertolucci's magnitude don't often take on sexual coming-of-age movies, but judging from the pleasures of Stealing Beauty, maybe more of them should. [14 Jun 1996 Pg.04.D]
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    60
    The script (written by Susan Minot from a story by Bertolucci) suffers from the same tired blood as his characters, and his direction is often ponderously self-conscious.

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  1. JoeinMD
    10
    It may be that I am just a dirty old man, but I am fascinated by Liv Tyler. I really liked this movie, too. Part of my affection might be the circumstances of seeing it -- we were in a theater at the Jewish community center near Baltimore and enjoying the movie except that there was an older couple a few rows in front of us. The man needed to go to the restroom probably about 3/4 of the way through the movie, and his wife had to help him. When they returned, it was just as Liv was to a sex scene with Tyler -- the woman looked up at the screen as they returned and said (very loudly), "Oh, my God!" I have to admit that not everything Liv has done is great (McCool's comes to mind). Still, I would give almost anything she was in a try.… Expand
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