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Metascore
18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinFreed from the slavishness of most authorized biography, the film makers try bold strokes.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannAn absorbing look at emotional tyranny, with a great screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanCool, assured, emotionally remote, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso is never less than watchable, but it's also a cinematic paradox, a movie that works to capture Picasso from every angle yet somehow misses the fire in his belly.
- 70VarietyVarietyLatest Merchant Ivory production (produced with David Wolper) is a winner in spite of relatively modern look to the film.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranSurviving Picasso is quite well made and easy enough to watch, but it's not noticeably challenging or involving.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie breaks down into anecdotes that don't flow or build, and everything is narrated by the Gilot character.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserA big, silly movie about the famed goatish painter that stars the nearly perfect Anthony Hopkins.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis movie is a dreary endurance test.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumNot a movie that needs to exist, but it passes the time, and at least Hopkins manages to look like Picasso at odd moments.
- Surviving Picasso falters in its careless structure.