A Little Chaos
Focus Features | Release Date: June 26, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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19
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75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerJun 25, 2015
If one can put that historic reality aside — and Rickman and fellow screenwriters Jeremy Brock and Alison Deegan make that possible via their straightforward script — A Little Chaos becomes a highly enjoyable journey to a rarified world 300-plus years ago. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 23, 2015
A little more chaos might have truly lit this one up. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenJun 25, 2015
The story comes to life only fitfully, even with — or perhaps because of — its court intrigue and supporting characters.... But there are striking glimpses of grit, muck and voluptuous beauty (the great Ellen Kuras handled the cinematography) and, above all, there's Winslet. Read full review
60
The DissolveKate ErblandJun 23, 2015
There are weeds here, thorny stuff to slash through, but when A Little Chaos stays on course, there’s plenty of beautiful work to admire. Read full review
60
EmpireAngie ErrigoApr 13, 2015
Lovely, engaging performances keep the film’s heart beating in a sweet if sometimes listless search for Eden. Read full review
60
Total FilmSimon KinnearApr 13, 2015
A classy, actorly affair, whose emphasis on bittersweet character drama over class satire is both its most striking feature and biggest missed opportunity. Read full review
60
The GuardianCatherine ShoardSep 13, 2014
It has to be said, the performances are excellent. Winslet manages emotional honesty within anachronistic confines, and Schoenaerts escapes with dignity. Read full review
58
HitfixGregory EllwoodSep 13, 2014
A Little Chaos earns one compliment, but it's unfortunately a backhanded one: it’s watchable. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianJeff BakerJul 14, 2015
This overwatered trifle is doomed to wilt and fade quickly from memory. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJun 25, 2015
Mr. Schoenaerts’s dour André may make conceptual sense, but he leaves a hole in this handsomely mounted costume drama that would have profited from more intrigue and a steamier erotic atmosphere. Read full review
50
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJun 25, 2015
The film is engrossing and entertaining if sometimes trite and manipulative and totally bogus. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisJun 25, 2015
Isn’t a bad film. But it’s a little slow and a little too un-chaotic for its own good. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephanie MerryJun 25, 2015
Though it purports to be about the delights of disorder, “A Little Chaos” feels like yet another by-the-book period romance, only without the genre’s requisite spark between the main characters. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaJun 25, 2015
Visually, the film is sumptuous and the costumes are suitably wow-inspiring, but the humans are a blah bunch. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaJun 25, 2015
Alan Rickman's film is consistently, and often dispiritingly, mired in the quaint tradition of the classy costume drama. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jun 24, 2015
Watching A Little Chaos, one might assume that its makers were dramatically limited by the details of Le Notre’s life, when it was really just their own imaginations do the limiting. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartJun 24, 2015
The romance between Winslet and Schoenaerts — billed as the film’s centerpiece — is, regrettably, never really allowed to bloom. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAaron HillisJun 23, 2015
Appropriately hunky but neutered of the brute sexuality he exhibited in Bullhead and Rust and Bone, Schoenaerts and his lack of bodice-busting tension with Winslet mirrors the film's transparent, often anachronistic inauthenticity. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 13, 2014
Winslet’s mix of grace, gumption and private sadness is the chief reason to keep watching, but she deserves a more dynamic film. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveySep 13, 2014
Too often, helmer Rickman galumphs through what’s meant to be a witty romp, underlining the script’s most obvious, rigged qualities. Read full review
42
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicSep 13, 2014
Some intriguing dialogue, and a closet full of fantastic frocks, can’t help an impressive ensemble cast save A Little Chaos from being a lackadaisical picture, far removed from anything remotely exciting as chaos. Read full review
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