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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe result is immersive and intelligent, but not what one would call difficult. Graf’s knack for no-nonsense storytelling means that Beloved Sisters seems to fly past.
- 90VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasAn enthralling, gorgeously mounted depiction of the complicated relationship between the post-Enlightenment writer and philosopher Friedrich Schiller and the sisters Charlotte von Lengefeld (who would become his wife) and Caroline von Beulwitz (his eventual biographer).
- 80Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekAlthough there's nothing sensationalistic about his approach, [Graf] treats the characters' tentative, often problematic bohemianism as a wild, brave, and precious thing, and the lead actors — restrained where it counts and bold where it matters — are a pleasure to watch.
- 75New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNew York PostFarran Smith NehmeThis film loves its characters, but loves their ideals even more.
- 75RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyA very nearly epic romance, one that approaches the idea of a ménage-a-trois as emblematic of a particular idealism on the part of its participants rather than a hotsy-totsy taboo-busting arrangement.
- 63Slant MagazineJames LattimerSlant MagazineJames LattimerIt blossoms into a breezily utopian depiction of a ménage á trois whose entirely matter-of-fact presentation sets up an intriguing dissonance with the prim period setting.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreNever works up a romantic head of steam, never captures the frisson and ferment of a tumultuous age. And, thanks to the flat depiction of Schiller, Beloved Sisters never overcomes the feeling that it’s a lecture, with a little rough and ready German sex tossed in, here and there, to wake up the class.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van Hoeij[A] handsomely produced if occasionally rather old-fashioned feeling period drama, which plays like a soap opera in which the characters just happen to have better manners and finery.
- 50The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'Angelo[Graf's] handsomely mounted, beautifully acted epic biopic (running just shy of three hours) succeeds in reducing the lives of three important figures in German literary history to a rather banal love triangle.
- 50The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenWith its dearth of substance and its wandering focus, this is a middlebrow bodice-ripper posing as an epic that hasn’t the foggiest idea of what it wants to say.