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Metascore
14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNew York PostFarran Smith NehmeHalle Berry’s latest vehicle is old-fashioned as a leisure suit, but better-looking and a lot more fun.
- 63Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThis movie, with its flashbacks to past sins and traumas, rests squarely on Berry, a mesmerizer who makes every moment count.
- 60Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyVillage VoiceSherilyn ConnellyIt's occasionally imaginative, and, most importantly, never boring.
- 58Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerIt’s not just Frankie who is putting on a show here. Berry is also overemphatically showing off her chops.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumIt's just a matter of time, flashbacks, many costume and accent changes, some more jazz, and a triggering tune on the radio before the truth can set Frankie, and the audience, free.
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreA soapy period piece that hits all the usual mileposts in filmed versions of such stories.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierIt’s all too much. Frankie & Alice has multiple problems it can’t get past.
- 40Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleBerry's florid physicality has a certain silent-melodrama pull. The film around her, however, is lamentably by-the-numbers.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperA cringe-inducing mess.
- 30The DissolveNathan RabinThe DissolveNathan RabinFrankie & Alice gives her the rare opportunity to play a film’s hero and its villain inside the same body, and she does a memorably dreadful job in both capacities. That trainwreck fascination is about the only redeeming facet of a prestige picture gone terribly, though not entertainingly, awry.