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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Director and co-writer Laurent Tirard's pleasant but tame approach to his birth-of-a-major-world-dramatist portrait has its virtues. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: A conventional biopic would probably elide most of this period, which was before the pioneering satirist scandalized the establishment with plays like Tartuffe, but the disarming farce Molire, to its great credit, isn't really a biopic. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: As a piece of speculative biography, the movie is unpersuasive. Read more
Ryan Wenzel, Chicago Reader: Through homage to Moliere's works and by the film's own example, [director] Tirard reminds us that comedy can provoke both laughter and thought. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Laura Morante proves once again that she is one of the most intelligent and attractive actresses in the world. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Director and cowriter Laurent Tirard are clearly under the sway of Shakespeare in Love, but the talented Duris is miscast as the wily Moliere, and Moliere has none of Shakespeare's giddy charm. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Moliere is as much about the making of a patroness as it is about the gestation of artistic form, for it's she who eggs on the callow playwright to reinvent comedy as serious business with a powerful moral core. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Festooned with oodles of museum-worthy 17th century sets and costumes, Moliere is the sort of slightly naughty but literate frolic that congratulates the audience for its good taste; in other words, it's a bit of a snooze. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: This is the sort of period movie -- that would leave a modern audience with faces of stone. Yet the film, directed by Laurent Tirard, has something. To be exact, it has Fabrice Luchini and Laura Morante... Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: A period piece enlivened with slapstick and mischievous wit. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The actors elevate what might have been fluff into a genuinely moving tale, and the action is so much fun that it doesn't even matter if you've seen Moliere's plays before. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: This movie about the crucible of imagination has none of its own. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière, wrote more than 30 plays, every one of them a hundred times more witty and insightful than the movie Molière. Read more
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Like the playwright's comedies, at its best Moliere shows the depths beneath the archetypes. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Moliere is a restful diversion, perhaps too restful, but still acceptable. And the actors go a long way toward bringing it off. Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: Moliere hardly matches the clever mockery of its 17th century inspiration. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: In making a comedy about a writer famed for his perfectly tuned wit, the filmmakers have inspired other expectations. The result is as off-putting as biting into a confection in which the sugar has been replaced by salt. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Woefully miscast as the seminal 17th-century French farceur Moliere, the intense, black-maned young French movie star Romain Duris never seems more comfortable than the brief moments when he's rotting in a dank jail. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: All in all, it's a breezy, jestful and enjoyable divertissement, in which Duris is given free rein to showcase his considerable versatility. Read more
Lisa Nesselson, Variety: Speculative pic on how Gaul's answer to Shakespeare found inspiration in an involuntary gig giving a nobleman acting lessons is sumptuous, touching and often laugh-out-loud funny. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: An extravagant and thoroughly irresistible story of intrigue, romance, comedy and artistic inspiration. Read more