| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"A bon bon with a melancholy aftertaste." more... |
B |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...cool, as a matter of fashion, yes, but also of mood." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Kirsten Dunst is pitch-perfect in the title role..." more... |
A |
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves |
"...not a perfect movie, but it's a very good movie about one of history's most iconic figures." more... |
B |
E! Online
Matt Stevens |
"...as glossy and vacuous as a pop song." more... |
C |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...artfully personal historical fantasia..." more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
"...beguiling..." more... |
B |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"A smart and empathetic take on an often reviled historical personality." more... |
B+ |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"...dazzling..." more... |
A- |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"...a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song." more... |
A- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"This is a movie that never gets to the point, perhaps because it doesn't recognize what the point is." more... |
C- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"No one captures girlhood on film better than Coppola." more... |
A- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...lacking in wit or real significance." more... |
C- |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"The cast is uniformly non-French, and restrained to the point of rigor mortis." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"Let the audience eat cake rather than indulging in a movie ticket for Marie Antoinette." more... |
C |
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