“(...) Jeremy Irons is perfectly cast and at his very best as the British middle-aged French literature professor Humbert Humbert, thewrecked, doomed and tragic figure who falls for Lolita (...) This moral tale of a man’s downfall through his fatal flaw is made with great care by British director Adrian Lyne. And it is written equally carefully by Stephen Schiff in a screenplay that respects the original book in its faithfulness to Nabokov’s narrative. (...) If Irons is excellent, the 17-year-old Swain’s mature acting also impresses and Frank Langella has a field day with the extremely wicked Clare Quilty, the story’s main villain.”

(Derek Winnert, derekwinnert.com, March 4, 2015)