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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Movie Details & Credits

Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 1996

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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90	#90 Best Movie of 1996
31	#31 Most Discussed Movie of 1996
29	#29 Most Shared Movie of 1996

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Time - 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

TV Guide Magazine - Staff(not credited)

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

ReelViews - 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

Newsweek - 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

Christian Science Monitor - 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

Austin Chronicle - 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

Chicago Reader - 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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pokoe

Apr 8, 2017

This movie is one of the best musical movies i've evers seen. The combination between a good story good music and good actors... What more can you wish fore? This is a piece of history combined with music.. This is art at it highest form.

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AlonsoM.

Aug 31, 2008

Excellent music, good Madonna performance, nice edition.

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Jodybig

Nov 11, 2012

So long as you like Andrew Lloyd Webber, you'll love this film. Madonna (in probably her best role to date) and Antonia Banderas give great performances, and there are some epic-scale scenes.

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SeamusS.

May 31, 2006

I give this a positive review only for the pure ambition that went into making it. At moments, it has some of the most cinematicaly moving shots ever commited to film. The only problem being is that after a good hour and a half of nothing but "CRAZY" music, you really do long for some dry dialouge.

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Steven

Apr 11, 2007

Bad transition from a play to a film, the play was good, the movie NOT.

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AndrezBanks

Sep 9, 2018

The worst movie in the whole story, Madonna makes it so boring that I dream of just seeing 5 minutes.

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

DanShelley

Sep 9, 2018

If you were the Mona Lisa
You'd be hanging in the Louvre
Everyone would come to see you
You'd be impossible to move
It seems to me is what you are
A rare and priceless work of art
Stay behind your velvet rope
But I will not renounce all hope

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