Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

The movie is remarkably touching and engrossing, with Kline's spot-on acting and realistically second-rate singing balancing Judd's one-note performance as his wife.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

A musical and a biography, and brings to both of those genres a worldly sophistication that is rare in the movies.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

De-Lovely is something dishy and rare: a biopic about a happy, and even enchanted, man.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

Flies so gallantly in the face of what's supposed to work at the movies these days that you just have to love it.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Kline, though, does give one of the great movie performances of the year so far.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

As a bio-pic, De-Lovely is pretty standard, run-of-the-mill stuff (albeit with an interesting framing device). However, as a "best hits" collection of Cole Porter's music, it is unparalleled.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

At its best, De-Lovely evokes a time, a place and a sound with stylish wit and sophistication.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

Turns out to be thoughtful, creative, and generally worthy of its subject, with sins that are more of ambition and miscalculation than of execution.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey

This intelligent, postmodern biography from director Irwin Winkler and screenwriter Jay Cocks uses Porter's songs, by turns haunting and hilarious, to decode and reconstruct a life hinted at in the familiar words and music.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

A sprightly musical revue built around Cole Porter songs and a few biographical tidbits culled from his extraordinary life.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Benefits greatly from Kevin Kline's outstanding performance as the ultra-sophisticated songwriter whose resilient marriage anchored a complicated double life.

Premiere by Laine Ewen

Though director Irwin Winkler takes pains to accurately present Cole's life (unlike "Night and Day," the 1946 biopic starring Cary Grant), the film has its shortcomings. First of which is pushing the love story, when it's clear Linda's feelings aren't reciprocated.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

If you're a Cole Porter fan you might like the songs in De-Lovely, but as a portrait of an unusual marriage it's de-lumbering, de-liberate and de-cidedly flat.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

If Porter's songs are so timeless, why does the movie sound like something that might have played on VH1 five years ago?

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Openly gay and overwhelmingly glum.