though the film is over-talky and over-stagey, it is a good and interesting job of work. Robert Morley, who once made an effective stage Oscar Wilde, looks perhaps a little too old for the role ...

Rupert Everett spent years laboring over The Happy Prince, a film about Oscar Wilde’s difficult final days set shortly before the celebrated Irish author and playwright died in exile ...

Dramatizations of the life of playwright Oscar Wilde usually dwell ... the codes and humor of Wilde and his social circle. There is a moment in this movie where Wilde’s long-suffering friend ...

Color and wide screen are a sock asset to The Trials of Oscar Wilde and, on balance ... Where Trials suffers in comparison with the b&w film is in the remarkable impact of the libel case court ...

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by ...