Rules Don't Apply

"A fitfully funny quasi-farce that takes off promisingly, loses its way mid-flight and comes in for a bumpy but safe landing" 

"An enjoyably sprawling look At Hollywood, hypocrisy & Howard Hughes (...) 'Rules Don’t Apply' is never uninteresting" 

"Beatty, 79, is more than a quarter century older than Hughes was in 1958, and though it’s a pleasure to see him acting again, this version of the character feels more pathetic than magnetic" 

"Warren Beatty plays Howard Hughes with seductive charm, sneaky intelligence and buggy eccentricity. Sadly, Beatty as writer and director has chosen to make Hughes a supporting role, teasing a much deeper portrait." 

"A sweet, old-fashioned Hollywood romance (...) Beatty’s long-gestating project is a modestly enjoyable, well-acted nostalgia piece" 

"It may be hyperbolic to describe Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes movie, 'Rules Don't Apply', as a screwball 'Citizen Kane'. But that's what it feels like." 

"An odd and exasperating film (...) It doesn’t make sense as a comedy, it doesn’t quite work as a drama, and it doesn’t follow the typical roadmap of a biopic, but 'Rules Don’t Apply' is strangely compelling nonetheless (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)" 

"The romantic comedy-drama Rules Don’t Apply is, by turns, fizzy and melancholy, nostalgic and clear-eyed, but it never builds to anything especially substantial"