The Lady
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Metascore
43 out of 100

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6.4 out of 10

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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 21
  3. Negative: 3 out of 21
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Apr 13, 2012
    75
    The Lady is a portrait in moral and physical courage, a sort of analysis of what constitutes greatness.
  2. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    Apr 12, 2012
    60
    The Lady is still titled away from the churning melodrama of Suu Kyi's country and toward the intimate dilemma of a loving couple forced apart by circumstance.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    Apr 12, 2012
    50
    It can't be easy to turn one of the most stirring human rights dramas of the past quarter century into stultifying screen pageantry, but director Luc Besson and writer Rebecca Frayn have managed the trick with The Lady.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Adam Bernstein
    Apr 19, 2012
    38
    In the final scene, the filmmakers nearly succeed in turning Suu Kyi into an Asian Eva Peron, down to the outspread arms, tossing an orchid to her worshippers.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. bennet
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a vivid and devastatingly heart breaking detail of Aung San Suu Kyi's years in captivity. A lot of critics attack it for not being a Luc Besson action film or more political when I think the Shakespearian conflict of family v country, of having to be away from her husband in his final hours has always intrigued me. If they reviewed the movie they saw and not the one in their head, I suspect it would have scored higher. I did not notice how long the film was.

    One reviewer criticized the Nobel Prize scene which had her very intimate attempt to communicate with music and participate in her isolation.    … Expand
  2. HomeReviewer
    8
    The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, is played wonderfully by Michelle Yeoh. I knew little about this famous person as I suspect many also didnâ… Expand
  3. seenEMall
    5
    This handsomely mounted picture is, at nearly 2 1/2 hours, far too long and indigestible for a film whose protagonist spends most of her screen time under house arrest.… Expand
  4. roadshowscholar
    4
    There's something immobile at the center of The Lady, a kind of Botoxed biopic with an unlikely director - Luc Besson - manning the syringe. A bad, bad film.… Expand

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