The Happy Prince

Everett's approach is unblinking. "The Happy Prince" is painful to watch, but filled with insight, complexity and understanding.

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Director-actor Rupert Everett tackles Oscar Wilde in his later years, and proves this was the role he was born to play

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“The Happy Prince” is, of course, a sad tale.

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Rupert Everett transforms into Oscar Wilde in this sentimental portrait of the famed Irish wit

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The fountain of wit dries up in The Happy Prince, an Oscar Wilde biopic about his sad last days

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The actor isn’t always the most assured writer-director, but he does understand the essence of his troubled, talented hero

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Rupert Everett's turn as Oscar Wilde is well-honed, but the actor-turned-director's diffuse overview of the writer's final years is less assured.

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Rupert Everett wrote, directed and stars in this portrait of the final years of fallen literary genius Oscar Wilde, exiled to continental Europe following his notorious trial and imprisonment.

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Rupert Everett brings power and empathy to Oscar Wilde's gutter years

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Which is to say that The Happy Prince finds an amazing actor in need of a shrewder filmmaker.

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Suffused with a sentimentality that Wilde himself would have deplored, The Happy Prince is narratively mushy and meandering. Yet, beneath the prosthetics, there’s genuine pathos in Mr. Everett’s portrayal of a man bitterly aware that his talents are unreliable armor against the perceived sin of his homosexuality.

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