Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) Reviews & Ratings

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Can You Ever Forgive Me? reviews

Can You Ever Forgive Me? holds a 6.8/10 average from 1,386 TMDB ratings.

Lee Israel was selfish, cold, sad, and disreputable. She was also really fun to know. Sookie nails this one.
— Rodney Wollam (9/10)

Mad props to Melissa McCarthy for turning it around with this after _Happytime Murders_ and _Life of the Party_. Actually after basically every single thing I've seen her in up until this point. I honestly can't think of a single role I've liked her in. Until Lee Israel of course, because as her, in this, McCarthy is great. Respect for Richard E. Grant in the supporting role as well. It took me a little while after…
— Gimly (6/10)

**_Unexpectedly emotional, with a towering central performance_** > _I had never known anything but up in my career, had never received even one of those formatted no-thank-you slips that successful writers look back upon with triumphant jocularity. And I regarded with pity and disdain the short-sleeved wage slaves who worked in offices. I had no reason to believe life would get anything but better. I had had no exp…
— Stephen Campbell (8/10)

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

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