Wonderful cast! Tulip Fever is a surprisingly great period film that leaves the viewer wondering how the story is going to end. I recommend this film as a nice date film. Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz gave solid performances throughout the film.

Director Justin Chadwick has managed to concoct a story so overladen and contorted it would actually probably be more satisfying to watch actual tulips growing. In the ground. In real time. (At least then the visuals would be beautiful and the story would make sense.)

Nearly every role is miscast, which is rather amazing. Christoph Waltz and Judi Dench (as an abbess) are perhaps the exceptions.

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Stoppard, remember, wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, which brought wit and romance to this same period. Tulip Fever is not in that film's league, but it's lush and boisterous and crammed with the sort of arts gossip and commerce trivia that go nicely with gilded frames and talk of tulip futures.

Bob Mondello

NPR