Evita

Released 1996

USER EDITOR

No Editor

User Score: 0

SHOW REVIEWS
By TV.com Users

Movie Summary

EDIT

Director:: Alan Parker
Released:: 1996

Rating:: PG

Few times in the history of Hollywood has a film been released with the scope and daring of EVITA! Now, experience this landmark achievement as entertainment megastar Madonna -- in the role of a lifetime -- joins Antonio Banderas for a motion picture event! Directed by award-winning filmmaker Alan Parker, EVITA is the riveting true-life story of Eva Peron (MADONNA), who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve unimaginable fortune and fame. Despite widespread controversy, her passion changed a nation forever!

Metacritic Score

Based on 23 critics

70

Variety Todd McCarthy

Director Alan Parker has done a dazzling job creating screen images to accompany the wall-to-wall music, resulting in a musical fresco that is much closer to a sophisticated filmed...
50

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

But the film is still breathless and shrill, since Alan Parker's direction shows no signs of a moral or political compass and remains in exhausting overdrive all the time.
40

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Without real dialogue and believable connections between actors, Evita is limited in its effectiveness, and all the crying for Argentina in the world can't change that.