Rules Don't Apply's reviews
Media reviews
New York Times
The wonder of the movie, which Mr. Beatty wrote and directed from a story he wrote with Bo Goldman, is that it is so good-humored. Fools and idiots abound, but demonic, systemic evil does not.
Indiewire
Beatty's long-gestating project is a modestly enjoyable, well-acted nostalgia piece with just a touch of edge.
Entertainment Weekly
It turns out that Rules Don?t Apply is hardly about Hughes at all. Instead, it?s a small-scale, lovingly filmed study of the blossoming romance between two fictional show-business newbies.
Time
This is a picture Beatty has wanted to make for years, and if the movie isn?t the achievement it should be, it?s at least entertaining in fits and starts.
Variety
Beatty tries hard to re-create the look and feel of late-'50s Hollywood as it existed both on-screen and off, aided by DP Caleb Deschanel and terrific costume and set contributions. And yet, it actually comes off too conservative for its own time, with stiff performances from Collins and Ehrenreich.
The Guardian
It doesn't make sense as a comedy, it doesn't quite work as a drama, and it doesn't follow the typical roadmap of a biopic, but Rules Don't Apply is strangely compelling nonetheless.
Screen Daily
The romantic comedy-drama Rules Don't Apply is, by turns, fizzy and melancholy, nostalgic and clear-eyed, but it never builds to anything especially substantial.