Based on a True Story
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: TBA CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 27, 2017
Polanski and the supremely genre-savvy Assayas know exactly what they’re doing, and whenever you think you’ve seen it all before, you realise they’re actually doing something else entirely – the film is an expertly navigated maze of misdirection. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungMay 27, 2017
There are multiple levels on which to enjoy Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story (D’Apres une histoire vraie), none of them very deep or complicated. But together they raise the resonance of a masterfully made psychological thriller in the traditional mode. Read full review
58
The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaMay 28, 2017
Polanski sleepwalks his way through the film, manifesting precious little of the skill and invention that fueled the slow-burn suspense and sinister atmospheres of superficially similar works such as Rosemary’s Baby and Repulsion. Read full review
58
IndieWireTommaso TocciMay 27, 2017
A stylish but ultimately stiff collection of old tropes about writers and their audience, fiction vs. reality, and the Other that becomes you. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 27, 2017
Although the screenplay contains all the beats needed to generate tension, Assayas’ gift for conveying information between the lines is almost entirely lost on Polanski, who doesn’t give his actresses the opportunity to flesh out the subtext of their most awkward interactions. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 27, 2017
This is a movie which begins with confidence and style, wearing its influences pretty insouciantly; the film sashays about the screen with a kind of sexy-chic smirk, like the unvarying facial expression of its co-lead Eva Green. But it wobbles at the brink of plot-holes which undermine the vital realistic plausibility of a film like this. Read full review
33
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicMay 27, 2017
It’s one of the director’s worst films, if not the worst. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 27, 2017
Nothing in this feeble psychological thriller rings true for a moment, though its unhinged machinations feel as pedestrian as soap opera in execution. Read full review
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