Sylvia
User Score
5.6 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 5 out of 14

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  1. NickB.
    Oct 31, 2003
    9
    Given the budget, the inability to use any poetry within the script, and the potentially disgustingly sensational roads the film could have taken, I think that Jeffs, Craig, Brownlow, and especially Paltrow do a wonderful job. Their work is excellent, real and moving.
  2. HonestJohn
    Oct 16, 2003
    9
    Good movie, folks.

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Metascore
56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 40 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 40
  3. Negative: 3 out of 40
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Mark Caro
    50
    It's a dreary movie about a dreary character, offering little insight into her poetry or the mental illness that ultimately conquered her.
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  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    63
    Despite an exceptional performance by Paltrow, whose Plath is a layer cake of infinite intelligence and bottomless need, Jeffs' film is an icy affair lacking the fever of Plath's and Hughes' poems.
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  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ron Stringer
    80
    The excellent cast is headed by Gwyneth Paltrow in the mood-shifting title role and Daniel Craig as the helpless, not-so-happily philandering Hughes.
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