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  Review by amanda ★★★½

  no one:

  richard burton about olivia de havilland: call me old fashioned but i was raised to serve my wife. i clean the dishes and cook her food. i do whatever she says bc she is my wife and she makes the rules around the house. she owns me. i am her property. if she ever cheats on me it's bc i was lacking.

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  Review by SebastianX ★★★½

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  A pearl plagued by uncertainty, nothing defines My Cousin Rachel better than pure unknown affliction, the dark reminder of the weight of death, taking the lead in Philip's attitudes, consequences of out-of-control, Rachel has never been more sneakily menacing than her angelic appearance, Olivia De Havilland has a gift for disguising herself in an innocent image, and it worked so well with a circumstantial twist, unafraid to use her delicacy to cause torment in her subconscious, only for your mortal secret to become another even greater one.

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  Review by irmavep ★★★ 2

  Richard Burton in tight pants and Olivia de Havilland in big jewels.

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  Review by eely ★★★

  this is just the bare bones of the novel without any of the meat honestly but richard burton shivering while putting a crown on olivia de havilland is required viewing.

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  Review by noir1946 ★★★½ 6

  “Death is the price of murder.”

  In Daphne Du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel, as interpreted by Nunnally Johnson and Henry Koster, Philip Ashley (Richard Burton) has several spots of bother to contend with. He grows up in Cornwall devoted to his cousin and guardian Ambrose Ashley (John Sutton). Then Ambrose scurries away to Florence for a bit of sun and culture and suddenly ends up marrying their cousin Rachel (Olivia de Havilland), a widow. Then Ambrose becomes ill, writes ambiguous letters to Phil, and dies. Obviously, Rachel is a murderer, right? Then she shows up at the old homestead, and young, impressionable Phil is quickly smitten. Red herrings pile up in a big, stinking heap. Is Rachel to be trusted?…

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  Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★★½

  The last thing I needed when my wife was bringing me hot drinks and cold and flu capsules, was a film about a woman who was a potential poisoner of her lovers? Now I trust Mel with all my heart, but much the same as Gone Girl gave her ideas to take advantage of her "cool guy", I wondered whether the option to rid herself of the love-of-her-life would be too much of a temptation after watching Olivia De Havilland do likewise........................... or did she? That's the gist of Daphne Du Maurier's romantic mystery, was cousin Rachel really a murderer who offed Richard Burton's older cousin Ambrose? I've seen both the 2017 version of this tale by Roger Michell, and…

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  Review by McMudbunny ★★★½

  When waves crashing on stony cliffs are shot in beautifully contrasted black and white, the movie snob in me is easily won over and my mouth begins to water.

  Add the chiseled profile of Richard Burton silhouetted against these cliffs ,the problematic movie lover in me doesn't stand a chance. Mouth watering turns to buckets of drool.

  Burton's passionate, tight panted, performance aside. The true star here is Olivia De Havilland. Such ambiguity in this portrayal, not one invisible mustache was villainously twirled.

  *my apologies for mentioning buckets of drool, but those tight pants.

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  Review by Chris 🍉 ★★★★½ 2

  "My torment. My blessed, blessed torment."

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  Review by Fint ★★★½

  Olivia is very good indeed as the mysterious widow Rachel, who may be as sweet as Melanie in Gone With the Wind or as devious as Miriam in Hush Hush. Richard Burton in his Hollywood debut is a touch too overwrought but Olivia is balm to his fever. The film entertains and looks good with gloriously gothic photography from Joseph LaSchelle but is rather weighted down with vocabulary that the uninspiring touch of Henry Koster fails to lift, and the denouement is weak.

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  Review by 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂 ★★★★½

  Rachel, my torment
  my blessed, blessed torment.

  oh man, I loved this film so much. Olivia absolutely killed it. Again! What an incredibly talented actress she was!

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  Review by andrea g. ★★★★½

  gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss at its finest

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  Review by PUNQ ★★★½

  Richard Burton comes to Hollywood to feel Olivia de Havilland's cruelty. The mood, the settings and the almost gothic femme fatal carries a mystique that makes the film quite intriguing. It's not a perfect creation, but it is a expressive and dark affair.