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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBut Parker's visuals enliven the music, and Madonna and Banderas bring it passion. By the end of the film we feel like we've had our money's worth, and we're sure Evita has.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis brash, glitzy, energetic entertainment has the power to hold an audience enraptured, but, at the same time, there's a sense that what we're experiencing is just candy for the eyes and ears.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleAlan Parker's picture is epic, lavish and fascinating. It is not a perfect screen musical, but it is spectacular and it works.
- Evita is a busy movie with an often noisy soundtrack that can get tedious and monotonous (particularly in the second half), but it's just as likely to sweep one away with its musical, emotional and historical momentum.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe movie is such a chore because watching actors strain to wrap their mouths around prerecorded songs for 134 minutes is irritating and, worse, alienating.
- 50SalonSalonLloyd Webber is everything loud, dumb and tiresome, and everything loud, dumb and tiresome in Evita is him.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe movie takes no particular stance on the controversies surrounding its heroine, seen by some as a self-serving egomaniac and others as a tireless champion of the poor. Nor can much insight be gleaned from Madonna's energetic but oddly impersonal performance.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenExperiencing Evita is like watching one uninterrupted long-form music video divided only by different arias or costume changes (of which there are untold numbers).
- 25San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserUnfortunately, this movie needed an attractive, irresistibly charismatic performer to give us some reason for watching. Madonna is made up to look like Eva, but this is hardly enough to carry the movie.
- 0Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumIn what I saw, Madonna in the title role tries bravely not to buckle under the weight of Stone and Parker's sense of Stalinist monumentality and fails honorably, while the Lloyd Webber music goes on being nonmusical.