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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA Star is Born captures wonderfully the hustle of Hollywood.
- 90The New York TimesFrank S. NugentThe New York TimesFrank S. NugentThe original beauty. Not as glittery as Garland-Mason but in some ways even more golden.
- 75Slant MagazineJaime N. ChristleySlant MagazineJaime N. ChristleyWilliam Wellman’s 1937 version of this oft-told tale, of the rising starlet and the plummeting alcoholic has-been she refuses to cast aside, is usually regarded as the second-best of the lot, a few steps behind George Cukor’s 1954 remake, which has the unfair advantage of being one of the unimpeachable masterpieces of American film.
- 50The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelThe film is peculiarly masochistic and self-congratulatory.