Factory Girl
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 29, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
13
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostKyle Smith
Miller is wincingly good at playing up the innocence. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
This is a movie about power, and its spectacle is that of a woman losing all of it. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Pearce makes you see why Edie found Warhol as irresistible as he found her. His otherworldly eyes focus on both who she is and what she represents. He sees her as a star. Read full review
70
SalonStephanie Zacharek
If the filmmaking is in some ways awkward and elementary, Hickenlooper's attitude toward his subject is more complex, and more admirable. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
As Factory Girl more than acknowledges, Edie Sedgwick's downward spiral was ultimately her own doing. Yet even as the film captures the silk-screen outline of her rise and fall, it never quite colors in who she was. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
If not for Sienna Miller's engaging portrayal of Edie Sedgwick, Factory Girl would have little to offer. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Miller and Pearce are admirably determined to do their complex characters justice, but the generic script turns them into enigmatic symbols, locked in a hollow time capsule. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
For Hickenlooper and Mauzner, Sedgwick is more interesting for whom she slept with than who she was. Their movie may indict Warhol for exploiting Sedgwick, but they're just as guilty. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Director George Hickenlooper captures the energy and ultra-irony of Warhol's scene, but his attempts to give the film a conventional biopic arc end up wallowing in dime-store psychology. Read full review
60
EmpireStaff (Not credited)
A brave bid to recreate a modern American tragedy, with a revelatory turn by its lead actress. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Factory Girl lives fast and dies young, but the corpse it leaves isn't really all that good-looking. Read full review
50
VarietyRobert Koehler
The wild, unhinged life of Andy Warhol's favorite "superstar," Edie Sedgwick, is refashioned in Factory Girl as a tame biopic with little feel for the 1960s New York Underground. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Despite, or perhaps because of, a flurry of 11th-hour recutting and reshoots -- the film feels rushed and unfocused. Read full review
50
SlateDana Stevens
For a movie about the tumultuous friendships among artists, musicians, and filmmakers during one of the 20th century's periods of creative ferment, Factory Girl is remarkably incurious about cinema, music, and art. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The movie ends up feeling superficial and mechanical. Warhol is a cut-and-dried villain rather than a complex individual. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
It's lively but chaotic and evasive. The period re-creation switches on and off. We get a sense of what the silver-walled Factory was like, but not the rest of swinging Manhattan in the '60s. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
It's a peculiar movie, frantic and useless, with a hyperactive camera that gives us no more than fleeting impressions of Edie ecstatic at parties, Edie strung out on drugs, Edie lying mostly naked on a bed, with her skin splotchy from injections. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The bar for historical accuracy in Hollywood biopics hasn't always been this high -- paradoxically, it's been rising even as the public has become more ignorant of history. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The two central performances are competent but uninspired -- and annoyingly mannered. Pearce's Warhol is a one-note, irresponsible villain and Miller's Sedgwick is a shallow, pretentious party girl who chain-smokes her way through every scene. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
It was probably hopeless from the start: The Warhol cosmos is too weird and complicated to lend itself to a conventional Hollywood biopic, and this one is conventional down to Warhol's first glimpse of his future "superstar" bouncing up and down vivaciously in tacky slow motion. Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
We find ourselves wondering about the real story, not this version. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Factory Girl is not, strictly speaking, a bad movie. It's something worse: an irredeemably banal drama about some of the most protean, contradictory creative forces of the 1960s. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyDavid Ehrenstein
Sienna Miller captures much of Edie’s physical manner and some of her voice (though she’s nowhere near deep enough), but there’s nothing she can do with material that requires her to mope and pout for the bulk of her screen time. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
It's more like "That Girl" on speed than anything else. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The kindest thing to be said about this deluxe photo spread of a film is that Sienna Miller's Edie and Guy Pearce's Andy capture their characters' images and body language with relative precision. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNathan Lee
Poor little girl, chewed up in the Factory machinery. It was inevitable, perhaps, that a biopic of the Pop princess would stick to pop psychology, but did it have to feel as flat as a silkscreen? With its hackneyed party scenes and jet-set montages, Factory Girl fails even at frivolity. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
The film strays so far from verisimilitude that it feels more like a big celebrity dress-up party than history brought to life. The profoundly silly Internet favorite series "Yacht Rock" offered a more convincing take on pop-culture history and that was at least going for laughs. Read full review
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