Evita

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Release Date:Rating:

December 25th, 1996

Genres:

Music, Drama

Subgenres:

Based on Book/Play, Biography, Broadway, Political, True Story

Plot Synopsis:

Lavish musical drama, based on the hit stage production by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, telling the life story of Eva Duarte (Madonna) who leaves her rural home for Buenos Aires in the company...

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Directed: Alan Parker (DUPLICATE GUIDE) Written: Alan Parker (DUPLICATE GUIDE), Tim Rice, Oliver Stone
Starring: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus

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[+] Time

90

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.
by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

88

But Parker's visuals enliven the music, and Madonna and Banderas bring it passion. By the end of the film we feel like we've had our money's worth, and we're sure Evita has.
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
[+] ReelViews

75

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.
by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
[+] San Francisco Chronicle

75

Alan Parker's picture is epic, lavish and fascinating. It is not a perfect screen musical, but it is spectacular and it works.
by Octavio Roca | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

75

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.
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[+] Variety

70

Director Alan Parker has done a dazzling job creating screen images to accompany the wall-to-wall music, resulting in a musical fresco that is much closer to a sophisticated filmed opera than to any conventional tuner.
by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

70

Evita is a busy movie with an often noisy soundtrack that can get tedious and monotonous (particularly in the second half), but it's just as likely to sweep one away with its musical, emotional and historical momentum.
by Richard Harrington | Read Full Review »
[+] USA Today

63

So fluidly visual that only a deathbed finale can flag its pace, it's the first Panavision music video to run 21/4 hours, the monotony finally sapping its staying power. [23 Dec 1996 Pg.01.D]
by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
[+] Empire

60

Madonna knocks herself out and deserves cheers for the emotional range and humanity with which she sings in Alan Parker's spectacular film. But whether you think the movie is great or grisly, rests in large part on your palate for Andrew Lloyd Webber's music.
by Angie Errigo | Read Full Review »
[+] The New York Times

50

But the film is still breathless and shrill, since Alan Parker's direction shows no signs of a moral or political compass and remains in exhausting overdrive all the time.
by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
[+] Christian Science Monitor

50

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.
by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
[+] Rolling Stone

50

The movie is such a chore because watching actors strain to wrap their mouths around prerecorded songs for 134 minutes is irritating and, worse, alienating.
by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
[+] Salon.com

50

Lloyd Webber is everything loud, dumb and tiresome, and everything loud, dumb and tiresome in Evita is him.
by Laura Miller | Read Full Review »
[+] Newsweek

50

It's gorgeous. It's epic. It's spectacular. But two hours later, it also proves to be emotionally impenetrable.
by David Ansen | Read Full Review »
[+] Entertainment Weekly

42

Technically, Madonna's singing is beautiful -- elegant, silky, refined. Yet there's no fire, no twinkle of ambitious joy, to her performance. Her face is fixed, almost tranquilized -- a porcelain mask.
by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »

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