- 10
Plenty of terrible movies know how to work your tear ducts. Here's a weepie that, in Pfeiffer's performance, touches you on the highest levels.
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 8
...a success...
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 8
...Cheri is like Dangerous Liaisons (which Frears also directed) reduced to a tasty morsel, an anecdote of wily and deceptive love. It is, if anything, an overly slender movie, yet its images of Belle Epoque high life are delectably lush, and if there were more to the story, it might not have such a delicate charm.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 7
Michelle Pfeiffer is back, and her reappearance in Cheri, her best role in quite some time, underlines not only how much she's been missed but also how much the world of film has lost by her absence.
—Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times
- 7
...a sumptuous, handsome portrait of a woman poised fearfully on the brink of decline, yet too proud to grab at rescue.
—Tasha Robinson Onion AV Club
- 7
...[full of] elegant, witty pleasures...
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 7
...proves we've missed Pfeiffer.
—Kenneth Turan Chicago Tribune
- 6
...a pretty adaptation...
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 6
...an entertaining bauble without much on its mind.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 6
...slight but highly decorative...
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 5
...graceless...
—Dan Callahan Slant Magazine
- 5
...an anemic adaptation...
—Melissa Anderson Village Voice