
Overview
Genre :
Romance, ComedyRelease Date :
May 18, 2012 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
Tanya WexlerStarring :
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Felicity Jones, Gemma Jones, Anna Chancellor, Ashley Jensen, Sheridan Smith, Malcolm Rennie
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics
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“..won’t rock your world, but it’s a perfectly good stand-in until something better comes along..”
by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News]
“..too bad the entire movie hadn't simply concentrated on her, and eliminated all the rest of this awkward fumbling around..”
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger]

“..the script captures some delicate and intelligent facets of a period that was tensely conflicted and impossible to reconcile..”
by Sara Maria Vizcarrondo [Boxoffice Magazine]
Review rate : A-
“..the most tasteful of explicit dramatization..”
“..the most tasteful of explicit dramatization..”
by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly]
Review rate : C+
“..such a simple and good-natured movie that any animosity rolls away and the worst it can do is cause you to roll your eyes..”
“..such a simple and good-natured movie that any animosity rolls away and the worst it can do is cause you to roll your eyes..”
by Matt Goldberg [Collider.com]
“..proceeds as a tedious, clumsy diddle, constantly reminding viewers how much progress has been made since the Victorian era..”
by Melissa Anderson [Village Voice]
“..not nearly as outrageous or unconventional as its premise might suggest, but saucy and enjoyable all the same..”
by David Rooney [Hollywood Reporter]

“..not actively unpleasant to sit through for the most part, but not particularly engaging or illuminating or charming..”
by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies]
“..her film has been buffed and tweaked into a coy, heavily costumed farce..”
by Jeannette Catsoulis [NPR]
Review rate : C
“..for all of its sexual posturing and potential to be truly saucy and unconventional, Tanya Wexler's "Hysteria" is inoffensively pleasant..”
“..for all of its sexual posturing and potential to be truly saucy and unconventional, Tanya Wexler's "Hysteria" is inoffensively pleasant..”
by Kevin Jagernauth [The Palylist]

“..comes across as a rather superficial brand of art house comedy that offers moderate entertainment value but little more..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]






