Evita

Name: Evita
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Released: December 25, 1996
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail, Jonathan Pryce, Madonna

1996

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Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 1996 | PG

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail, Jonathan Pryce, Madonna

Summary: Madonna stars in the riveting true-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve unimaginable fortune and fame. (BV Entertainment)

Director: Alan Parker

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Musical

Rating: PG

Runtime: 135 min

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Richard Corliss

But this Evita is not just a long, complex music video; it works and breathes like a real movie, with characters worthy of our affection and deepest suspicions. Read full review

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Alan Parker's big-budget adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's surpassingly shrewd stage spectacular isn't a big fat failure. But it isn't a resounding success, either: It's an awkward hybrid, neither lavish eye candy nor credible drama. Read full review

James Berardinelli

This brash, glitzy, energetic entertainment has the power to hold an audience enraptured, but, at the same time, there's a sense that what we're experiencing is just candy for the eyes and ears. Read full review

David Ansen

It's gorgeous. It's epic. It's spectacular. But two hours later, it also proves to be emotionally impenetrable. Read full review

David Sterritt

The movie takes no particular stance on the controversies surrounding its heroine, seen by some as a self-serving egomaniac and others as a tireless champion of the poor. Nor can much insight be gleaned from Madonna's energetic but oddly impersonal performance. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Experiencing Evita is like watching one uninterrupted long-form music video divided only by different arias or costume changes (of which there are untold numbers). Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

In what I saw, Madonna in the title role tries bravely not to buckle under the weight of Stone and Parker's sense of Stalinist monumentality and fails honorably, while the Lloyd Webber music goes on being nonmusical. Read full review

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Elias96

May 29, 2020

Perfect and the songs are Masterpiece... this movie needs to be re-edited in HD and make the New generations appreciate the art and career of Madonna❤️