Beloved Sisters: reviews

What the critics say average 7.4 from 6 outlets

• 9.1 The A.V. ClubIgnatiy Vishmevetsky The 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. Read
• 9.0 VarietyScott Foundas An 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). Read
• 7.5 New York PostFarran Smith Nehme There's a closing speech by a supporting player that feels false, but otherwise Graf succeeds in drawing you into this triangle. (...) This film loves its characters, but loves their ideals even more. Read
• 7.5 Roger EbertGlenn Kenny A 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. Read
• 6.0 The 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. Read
• 5.0 New York TimesStephen Holden With 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.