Click here to copy URL

Mary Reilly

1996

Stephen Frears

Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Kathy Staff ...

5.8

6,437

Drama. Horror. Thriller. Romance

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A dark, sad, frightening, gloomy story (...) the movie is as visually intimate as a Bergman film, and avoids most of the cliches suggested by the material (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Too bad the overreaching script has to go after effects recalling 'Alien,' but as a stylistic exercise this still has its chills"
		Godfrey Cheshire Variety	"'Mary Reilly' has plenty of production polish but little of the dramatic force and erotic spark needed to vivify a tale of the famous split personality and his young chambermaid."
		Kim Newman Empire	"In an era when Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview With The Vampire and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein desperately try to sell themselves as romantic melodramas (...) this isn't afraid to be a horror movie (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"This maudlin film transforms the legend of Jekyll and Hyde into a talky romantic love triangle"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Clearly Ms. Roberts has the makings of a serious actress and the wherewithal to become one, but 'Mary Reilly' offers a vehicle that is unrelievedly grim."

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.