Dalíland
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: June 9, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Original-CinLiam LaceyJun 8, 2023
Possibly, no sane person could truly explain Dalí — who could account for the painter of Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano? — but Harron’s film maintains a wry compassion for these mad love birds, who have spent their lives defying convention and perhaps reality itself. Read full review
80
TheWrapMartin TsaiSep 28, 2022
It’s based on historical facts and real-life characters, yet it feels timeless and allegorical. It’s indisputably Harron’s best, and she deftly locates stately classicism amid the crass and the banal, and vice versa. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 28, 2022
It’s both a highly entertaining movie and, by the end, a haunting one. It revels in Dalí’s artifice even as it mercilessly peels away his layers. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 8, 2023
At its base level, Dalíland is all about what a drag it is getting old, especially for a narcissist. But more importantly, it’s also a cautionary tale about the dead-end that is narcissism — not just in life, but in art. Read full review
70
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJun 9, 2023
The ultimate deflation of the movie into a pointed drama of norms and ethics doesn’t, however, dispel its glorious hour of theatrical spectacle and artistic mystery. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 8, 2023
While Dalíland occasionally edges into caricature, its take on Gala’s role in the marriage, her temperament and feverish attention to money is happily more complicated. Read full review
70
Film ThreatAndy HowellSep 22, 2022
It raises interesting questions about cults of personality, our inability to deal with aging, and how we can use the people around us to get what we want. That’s not exactly surrealism, nor is it realism. It’s just Hollywood. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSep 18, 2022
Mary Harron’s Dalíland revolves around the titular Surrealist, played with restraint and dignity by Ben Kingsley, while gently nudging the spotlight in the direction of his complicated wife/muse Gala, a role in which Barbara Sukowa more than earns the movie’s attention. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJun 9, 2023
Suki Waterhouse does her best with what she’s given. But still. The movie’s commonplaces don’t serve its singular subject—love him or hate him—all that well. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 1, 2023
Sukowa makes a fine villain, one among many “using” Dali. But Kingsley is the reason to visit Daliland, allowing us to “be in the presence…of genius” and be irritated, titillated, amused and maybe a little depressed about the trap our imperious host has flounced into and embraced as the doom he dreads but so feverishly craves. Read full review
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