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11/19/08
Funny Girl (1968)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:36
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Barbara Streisand elevates this otherwise rote melodramatic musical with her ultra-memorable star turn as Fanny Brice.
Runtime: 2 hrs 49 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New... [More]
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis
Director: William Wyler
Reviews for Funny Girl
You will have made your mind up about Babs one way or the other, but for the rare uninitiated, this is a fine introduction to her talents.
08/12/08
Top CriticStreisand is stunning, but the film is a trial, particularly when the music disappears somewhere around the 90-minute mark and all that's left is leaden melodrama.
08/12/08
A fine movie musical and a nice reminder of the time when Streisand was a talent rather than a 'phenomenon'.
08/12/08
This extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original.
08/12/08
Few film debuts in the 1960s were more auspicious than that of Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.
08/12/08
Barbra Streisand in her Hollywood debut makes a marked impact.
08/12/08
Top CriticI wish William Wyler's direction was more inventive and humurous (it's his first musical), but Streisand gives a meteoric performance, as Fanny Frice and as herself, showing a tremendous charismatic presence that goes beyond physical looks and acting.
02/07/08
[Streisand gives] a natural, unforced performance, easily one of the three or four best Best Actresses in Oscar history.
01/28/08
One of the all-time great film musicals with dazzling Streisand.
06/01/07
You will have made your mind up about Babs one way or the other, but for the rare uninitiated, this is a fine introduction to her talents.
12/30/06
Top CriticWell worth watching, even if most later Streisand movies aren't.
01/26/06
Given how she grew into perhaps the most annoyingly egocentric entertainer in all the world, it's difficult to imagine that Barbra Streisand was once an ingenue.
09/17/05
No review available.
02/10/05
It is impossible to praise Miss Streisand too highly; hard to find much to praise about the rest of the film.
10/23/04
Top CriticBarbra Streisand gives one of the musical genre's most sublime performances--unfortunately in a stodgy, badly paced, overly produced movie that don't deserve her.
07/31/04
No review available.
04/03/04
No review available.
01/12/04
No review available.
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