The Devil Wears Prada 2006

Critics score:
75 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Aside from Streep, the movie feels curiously light -- a timid satire afraid of upsetting the industry it derides. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Consider The Devil Wears Prada an attractive makeover of the original [book]. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: If there's any drama here, it's slender -- maybe a size 2. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The biggest problem with the movie, however, is that it tries to make a big deal out of a subject that has been beaten to death in the tabloids and the media. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: An agreeably shallow comedy. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Crafted like a high end TV show, it's a sort of video Vogue -- lite, brite and trite. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Single-handedly, Streep lifts Prada from adequate chick flick into intoxicating character study. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Prada just feels authentic, from its glossy look to the specific and sometimes curious behavior of the secondary and tertiary characters. To watch it is like being entertained while getting an anthropological crash course. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: A fun, entertaining date movie. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Killer cast, killer clothes, killer laughs. And best of all, you don't have to know the difference between Donna Karan and Donna Summer to delight in the film's wicked workplace politics. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: The Devil Wears Prada devotes an unfortunate amount of its running time to much less interesting business involving Anne Hathaway as a fresh-out-of-college aspiring journalist who lands an internship at Streep's magazine even though she knows nothi Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: The Devil Wears Prada is a clear case of able actors elevating an ordinary script, a movie that's as entertaining to watch as it's easy to predict. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: While the picture isn't brilliant, it is, at its most entertaining, a kicky, surprisingly astute throwback to bygone Hollywood social comedies. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: A sharp, surprisingly funny excursion into the catty realm of women's magazines. Read more

Clifford Pugh, Houston Chronicle: A lightweight chick flick that, despite gaping plot holes, will likely be a favorite of anyone who adores pretty women in pretty clothes. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: What makes the film more than fairly good fluff is Streep's performance. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Fun, flirty, spirited, sexy, you can't take your eyes off it. You've gotta have it. And then just as powerfully as it bursts onto the scene and commands your attention, it dies. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The Devil Wears Prada has the look of many studio movies. But if you pay heed to the craft in the details, there's satisfying quality here. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Slight but entertaining, The Devil Wears Prada is an ugly duckling-Cinderella tale set in the fashion industry, in which the wicked stepmother is far more interesting than the princess-to-be. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It's Streep who pops our flashbulbs. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Malice sparkles in The Devil Wears Prada. The fashion-world comedy achieves this plum by resuscitating the almost-dead virtue of dynamic dialogue. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The Devil Wears Prada is crisper, less self-righteous and mercifully shorter than its intermittently funny but interminable source. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: The Devil Wears Prada is primarily an occasion to celebrate Meryl Streep as a grand comedienne. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's all very light and pleasurable, and for fashionistas it's as fun as a sample shoe sale. Read more

Bob Mondello, NPR.org: Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The movie is no thigh-slapper, by any means, but veteran TV director David Frankel (Sex and the City) has given it a consistently whimsical touch. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The Devil Wears Prada is sassy, smart and sophisticated, a Working Girl for the new millennium. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Devil Wears Prada is two films in one: a caustic, energetic satire of the fashion world and a cautionary melodrama. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Devil Wears Prada is being positioned as a movie for grown-ups and others who know what, or who, or when, or where, Prada is. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Anne Hathaway is Patricia Field's latest fashion victim in this limp semi-satire. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: The Devil Wears Prada is a movie that revels in pleasure: the pleasure of fashion, of luxury, of power and ambition. It's also a tremendous pleasure to watch. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: This is a breezy and enjoyable piece of pop entertainment -- a welcome reminder of what Hollywood used to be good at. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The Devil Wears Prada is an awards season attraction that somehow escaped into the temperate months of the super and the silly, all the more reason to applaud its audacity. Read more

Time Out: The whole thing is humbug, a giant ad for the industry it affects to critique. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The comic appeal of The Devil Wears Prada is the cinematic equivalent of a size 2 -- wafer-thin and ultimately lacking in meat and substance. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Streep single-handedly elevates this sitcomy but tolerably entertaining adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's bestselling 2003 roman a clef. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: At once coolly indifferent and fanatically detail-obsessed, coiffed off-white hair emphasizing a hawk's hooded gaze, Streep is the scariest, most nuanced, funniest movie villainess since Tilda Swinton's nazified White Witch. Read more

Jennifer Frey, Washington Post: Streep makes it work. Streep makes it fun. Best known for her dramatic brilliance, Streep has done strong comedic turns in the past, and this performance is a reminder of that, and then some. Read more