Cruella
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: May 28, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 56 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
21
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Slant MagazinePat BrownMay 26, 2021
The film’s outward liveliness can’t mask the inner inertia it has as just another lifeless product assembled in a factory. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 27, 2021
Every joke is leaned on, as if it were some Shavian gem; every pregnant pause eventually aborts. Read full review
25
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMay 27, 2021
Exhaustingly over-directed (Craig Gillespie zooms in from an establishing shot to a close-up in nearly every other scene), the movie is also a nonstop parade of grating, obvious needle drops. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 26, 2021
Everything that’s good about Cruella can’t obscure the fact that it was a very bad idea. The movie makes gestures toward style. It has first-rate costume design. The soundtrack contains a series of well-loved but mostly irrelevant pop songs from the 1960s and ’70s. But we still end up with a movie that should never have been made. Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)Angelica Jade BastienMay 31, 2021
Cruella takes one of the richest narrative archetypes — the madwoman — and whittles her down into a glossy, hollow, capitalism-approved monster fueled by girl-boss politics. It has nothing to say about how women move through the world. Read full review
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