Fresh
Where Nabokov was witty, Kubrick is sometimes merely snide, but fine performances (particularly from Peter Sellers, as the ominous Clare Quilty) cover most of the rough spots.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Lolita
How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?
1962 · 2h 34m · Approved
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
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Lolita
Overview
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Director and cast
- Stanley Kubrick Director
- James Mason as Prof. Humbert Humbert
- Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze
- Sue Lyon as Dolores "Lolita" Haze
- Gary Cockrell as Richard T. "Dick" Siller
- Jerry Stovin as John Farlow
- Diana Decker as Jean Farlow
- Lois Maxwell as Nurse Mary Lore
- Cec Linder as Physician
- Bill Greene as George Swine
- Shirley Douglas as Mrs. Starch
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Far more satisfying than his later works (one hesitates to call them mere movies).
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
The picture has a rare power, a garbled but often moving push toward an off-beat communication.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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