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  • 2021
  • PG-13
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2021
  • PG-13
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Dan Stevens) suffers from terrible writer’s block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles’ quest for inspiration leads him to invite th...

Directed By: Edward Hall

Written By: Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard, Piers Ashworth, Noël Coward

  • 2021
  • PG-13
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2021
  • PG-13
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 39 m

Blithe Spirit

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
26
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Dan Stevens) suffers from terrible writer’s block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles’ quest for inspiration leads him to invite th...

Directed By: Edward Hall

Written By: Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard, Piers Ashworth, Noël Coward

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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42% Mixed
8 Reviews
58% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
26
0% Positive
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42% Mixed
8 Reviews
58% Negative
11 Reviews

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50
Feb 20, 2021
It’s the cinematic equivalent of day-old champagne: the taste is almost there, but the bubbles disappeared long ago.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
42
Feb 18, 2021
It’s absolutely exhausting.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 17, 2021
The impish Leslie Mann is well cast as his dead wife, Elvira, who provides a jolt of creative inspiration. Judi Dench’s screechy caricature of psychic Madame Arcati is less winning.
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW
30
Feb 19, 2021
Studied and overworked, this Blithe Spirit trips over its own ectoplasmic feet. Somewhere, Coward is scowling.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
30
Jan 14, 2021
Coward’s brand of urbane casual elitism is rather past its sell-by date. But the problems run deeper in this energetic but scattershot version of a property which might have been best left to rest in peace.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
25
Feb 18, 2021
The source material explodes with wit, but this hackneyed screenplay has swapped the crackling repartee for bargain-bin joke book lines delivered at a snail’s pace.
By Johnny Oleksinski FULL REVIEW
20
Jan 14, 2021
The irresistible comic elegance of the premise – a remarried widower is tormented by the ghost of his first wife – is lost in a mass of pointless embellishments and tinkerings.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW

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10% Negative
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Production Company Fred Films, Powderkeg Pictures, Align, British Lion Films, IPG Media Pty, StudioCanal UK
Release Date Feb 19, 2021
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline True Love Never Dies
Website http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/blithe-spirit
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