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Variety Staff, Variety: Picturesquely it is very pretty as to lightings, setting and photography, but there ends about all that can be said in praise. Read more
Time Out: Despite careful stylisation and exquisite photography, this adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play boasts a healthy streak of vulgarity of which Wilde, one suspects, would have secretly approved. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Most of the movie is a big buildup to Salome's dance, basically an absurd little gavotte despite the presence of a clownishly excited Herod and a squad of capering dwarfs. Read more