""Dying Young" oversteps its bounds a bit when it emphasizes Victor's intellectual superiority to the point of allowing him to tutor Hilary in art history as a way of repaying her kindness, and underscores the fact that he has a doctoral thesis in the works. Still, Mr. Schumacher's use of rapturous portraits by Klimt and Rossetti is bluntly effective in underscoring the inspirational power of a beautiful artist's model. In this film he, too, has his muse"
By JANET MASLIN Published: June 21, 1991 NYT®