Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Outside of Nicole Kidman’s decent performance, there is little to love about ‘Being The Ricardos’
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: [Kidman] gives one of her best performances as the red-headed comedienne, her lower, throaty voice a marvelous echo of Balls’, her imitations of Lucy Ricardo uncanny, her portrayal of the real woman revealing.
- [New] | Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: An informative chronicle that is more likely to delight fans of Aaron Sorkin’s writing than people who love Lucy.
- Mark Leeper @
- Excerpt: One suspects this will have more appeal for those who remember the original “I Love Lucy” show, but its continuing popularity will extend the audience for this.
- Nell Minow @ Moviemom
- Excerpt: I would love a world where Aaron Sorkin wrote everyone’s dialogue. Every sentence is perfectly composed. But the British have an expression “too clever by half” which I think of when he is both writer and director with no intermediary.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: None of it works without Kidman and Bardem carrying the weight of these titular icons on their shoulders. They’re great during the good times and even better during the bad.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: ‘Being the Ricardos’ is an only serviceable Lucille Ball biopic that overdelivers on narrative artifice and under-delivers on stakes. Though Nicole Kidman is the big awards contender, Javier Bardem is the standout as Desi Arnaz.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Unfortunately, Sorkin made it very clear to both Kidman and Bardem that he was “not looking for a physical or vocal impersonation of these people.” Instead, he was focused on telling their story. This hubris of the writer/director will keep “Being the Ricardos” from the awards it could have garnered.
- Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Casting the usually wonderful Kidman as Lucille Ball is like asking Angelina Jolie to play Carol Burnett in a biopic. And putting Bardem, Oscar winner for his villainous role in No Country for Old Men, in the part of music man Desi Arnaz makes no sense at all.
- Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It intertwines two different timelines, contrasting Ball’s transition from film to radio and television with the resounding success of “I Love Lucy”.
