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Rules Don't Apply

2016

Warren Beatty

Alden Ehrenreich, Lily Collins, Warren Beatty, Haley Bennett ...

5.0

964

Romance. Drama A story centered on an affair Howard Hughes had in the late years of his life with a younger woman, this is the unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her determined driver, and the eccentric billionaire (Beatty) who they work for. It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A fitfully funny quasi-farce that takes off promisingly, loses its way mid-flight and comes in for a bumpy but safe landing"	NEU
United States	Kevin Jagernauth The Playlist	"An enjoyably sprawling look At Hollywood, hypocrisy & Howard Hughes (...) 'Rules Don’t Apply' is never uninteresting"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"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"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"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."	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A sweet, old-fashioned Hollywood romance (...) Beatty’s long-gestating project is a modestly enjoyable, well-acted nostalgia piece"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"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."	POS
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"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)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"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"	NEU

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