Gosford Park
USA Films | Release Date: December 26, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
90
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
32
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
USA TodayMike Clark
The movie is so fun that it wouldn't need the mystery to be top-notch entertainment.
100
New York PostJonathan Foreman
It ranks among Robert Altman's best work ever, and that its many satisfactions derive in large part from a superbly written screenplay by Julian Fellowes that has no equal this year. Read full review
100
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A virtuoso ensemble piece to rival the director's "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" in its masterly interweaving of multiple characters and subplots. Read full review
100
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
At his best, Altman turns us into interlopers who have stumbled into a world that seems to predate us and persuades us it will continue to teem with life long after we leave the theater. Read full review
100
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Altman achieves his dream of a truly organic form, in which everyone is connected to everyone else, and life circulates around a central group of ideas and emotions in bristling orbits. [14 Jan 2002, p. 92]
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
At a time when too many movies focus every scene on a $20 million star, an Altman film is like a party with no boring guests. Read full review
100
SlateDavid Edelstein
The exhilaration is slow to build. It doesn't come from any one thing but from countless crosscurrents, tiny bits of color that fill out the portrait. Read full review
100
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Gosford Park abounds in scenes to savor. It's a feast, and one of Altman's best. Read full review
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
This territory is familiar if you remember the great BBC miniseries "Upstairs Downstairs," but Altman gives it a new twist with his restlessly roaming camera and incisively satirical approach. He's still near the peak of his powers. Read full review
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
A love affair between performer and filmmaker. The director shows off his ardor by eliciting from his actors aspects of their gifts that they themselves may not have known they had. Read full review
100
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
In the best Altman manner there are no real heroes and villains, only people trapped by their vanity and ambition and the straitjackets of classism. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Never has a film taken such relish in between-the-wars malice as Gosford Park. Read full review
100
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
A wickedly astute and beautiful comedy of manners-cum-murder mystery, it's too dense, and occasionally confusing, to grasp fully the first time around. How lucky, then, that it's also too much fun to see just once.
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
It's a scintillating comedy-drama and one of Altman's most richly moving and entertaining pictures. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece. Read full review
90
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Taking advantage of a splendid cast, a sharply focused script and the fresh English setting, "Gosford Park" emerges as one of the most satisfying of Robert Altman's numerous ensemble pictures. Read full review
90
New Times (L.A.)Andy Klein
Altman's technique also allows his huge cast to act up a storm, in the best sense. Gosford Park has roughly half the best actors in England in it. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
It's the style of the thing, not the plot, that is the attraction here, the great way the cast has with the snarky dialogue. Read full review
90
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
There are even more characters of interest here than in "Nashville." Read full review
90
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Without hesitation, I hand the comic award to Smith. She plays a pinched guest known as Constance, Countess of Trentham, to such a hilarious tee, her tee runneth over. Read full review
90
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Isn't much more than marvelous entertainment -- but then, that's a lot right there. Read full review
88
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
So deliciously absorbing and well done. Read full review
88
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
What a relief to see a movie in which an audience responds with peals of laughter to subtle facial shifts as well as punch lines. Read full review
88
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
No matter which floor you're on, the huge cast is extraordinary, and Altman gives the actors free rein to bring their characters to life despite such close quarters. Read full review
80
NewsweekDavid Ansen
A fine, well-groomed entertainment, but the road it takes has already been well paved. Read full review
80
Village VoiceDennis Lim
As with Altman's best movies, Gosford Park is above all an entrancing hum of atmosphere and texture. Read full review
80
Film ThreatTim Merrill
We have an authentic Old Master working in our midst, and Gosford Park will at the very least remind everyone how masterful a helmsman Altman can be. Read full review
80
Washington PostStephen Hunter
It's a very funny movie in that sniffy Brit way. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
It isn't about where you get, but how you get there -- and the getting there is a chewy delight. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
At its best it is one of the most dynamic movies from a most dynamic filmmaker, now 76. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
A British costume film that's funny but not at all fusty. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Qualifies as a solid double, maybe a triple. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Such a glorious cast, deployed to such trivial effect! Read full review
30
TimeRichard Schickel
Tedium overwhelms caring well before this endless film finally concludes.
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