Seberg: reviews

What the critics say average 6.3 from 8

• 9.0 TimeStephanie Zacharek The picture is potent and engaging; even its fictionalized elements ring with the spirit of truth. And Stewart is off the charts, though that?s hardly a surprise. Read
• 8.0 The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney The luminous Kristen Stewart keeps you glued throughout, giving a coolly compelling performance that becomes steadily more poignant as the subject unravels. Read
• 7.0 The WrapAlonso Duralde While director Andrews, most known for his stage work, doesn?t always know how to lift this story beyond banal biopic choices, he?s certainly tapped into something special with Stewart, who continues to reveal new layers with each film. Read
• 7.0 Screen DailyFionnuala Halligan Seberg somehow manages to pull off a tricky combination of radical politics, inter-racial sex and Hollywood tragedy while styling Stewart in Chanel. It?s quite a balancing act, but this is a film in which the story is just about strong enough to pull that heavy cart along Read
• 5.8 The PlaylistStephanie Watts With exquisite costume design, cinematography and a talented supporting cast, there?s plenty to admire in Seberg. However, the film?s sprawling and unwieldy narrative is ultimately what hinders it, leaving a drama that focuses in on a single person somehow feeling shallow and impersonal. Read
• 5.0 VarietyGuy Lodge Every time it threatens to truly pierce the psyche of its subject, played with typically intriguing, elusory intelligence by Kristen Stewart, the more ordinary mechanics of the movie she?s serving get in the way. Read
• 4.2 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich Sometimes clever, often clumsy, and virtually always denying Kristen Stewart the space required to breathe new life into the film?s namesake, Seberg feels off-balance from almost the moment it starts. Read
• 4.0 The GuardianXan Brooks It tells us that Seberg was wronged and that she looked really great in a bra ? and not necessarily in that order. Read