Maurice - Movie Reviews (2024)

Maurice feels stifled, held back by its own desire to please its expectant audience.

Full Review | Aug 26, 2022

A very frustrating movie. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 6, 2022

Director James Ivory understands the political implications of his film better than anyone. Maurice rises above its predictable narrative through its resounding commitment to the idea that happiness will always triumph over a life in the closet.

Full Review | May 17, 2022

James Ivory and Ismail Merchant earned sizable art-house income and awards for two of their three E.M. Forster adaptations, A Room with a View and Howards End. Maurice largely slipped through the cracks, although it's worth another look.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2021

We see Maurice's agony and pain, and in fact, empathize with it, but that is largely our own doing It takes imagination.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 17, 2021

Maurice depends on us sympathizing with the main character, and Wilby's earnestness is able to draw us in right away.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2021

Arguably the most important, and certainly the most daring entry in the Merchant-Ivory canon, Maurice is a lush exploration of identity, passion, and being true to oneself.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2020

With a stellar cast and the beautiful cinematography, a benchmark of the Merchant Ivory productions, on full display, Maurice is well worth the watch.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2020

Maurice is a repetitive and slow film. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 23, 2020

Maurice is certainly one of the best films in queer cinema.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2020

The most stunning example of such a persistently ambiguous vision, which is often about the inability to express or even know one's desire, is Maurice... If the film is slow and confusing, its confusion is inherent in attempts to represent gay sexuality.

Full Review | May 20, 2020

Certainly no more or less angst-ridden that other Forster adaptations of the time, Maurice is a worthy entry among the best Merchant-Ivory had to offer.

Full Review | May 11, 2020

It is difficult to sympathise with [Maurice], however dire his predicament.

Full Review | Apr 10, 2019

A triumph of the Merchant Ivory aesthetic. The cast are gorgeous. The passion is polite. The conclusion is a little surprising. Well worth reviving.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2018

This elegant, heart-rending romance is now ripe for the reclaiming as a gay landmark.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2018

Maurice is a candid, lucid, passionate film.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 26, 2018

What's really revolutionary about this film is the way Ivory photographs male bodies in what were, by the standards of mainstream cinema at the time, quite explicit sex scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 26, 2018

A sumptuous film, whose beauty and importance has only increased with age. The very definition of a must-see.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2018

It's as handsomely mounted as any of its more beloved brethren, especially in a shiny new 4k restoration, but it's no mystery why it was largely ignored back in the day.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2017

With compassion, humor and detachment, James Ivory's superb film of E.M. Forster's "Maurice" takes us into the complacent, fixed world of Britain's privileged classes in the years immediately before World War I.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2017