Jeanne du Barry
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: May 2, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
12
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Screen RantBen GibbonsMay 2, 2024
Jeanne du Barry is a beautiful story, but lacks emphasis or innovation, which is essential in a period drama's success. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 16, 2023
It is a preposterous confection of a movie, like one of the rich sweetmeats being languidly nibbled at court, but very moreish, nonetheless. It is handsomely furnished and costumed with blue-chip character actors in the supporting roles and some wonderful locations and interiors at the Palace of Versailles itself. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 16, 2023
In attempting to reclaim this woman’s reputation, Maïwenn’s film feels unexpectedly tame — it risks turning a would-be scandal into a royal bore. Read full review
60
Screen DailyLisa NesselsonMay 16, 2023
This is not great or memorable filmmaking but the power of the story and some of the performances make up for that. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 1, 2024
It’s hard to know what Maiwenn was trying to accomplish here, besides giving herself a juicy and an entirely sympathetic historically-based role. She achieves that, and she’s good in the film — Maiwenn always is — but the “what’s the point of all this” question takes “Jeanne du Barry” down just a notch. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastNick SchagerApr 29, 2024
[Depp] proves that he remains one of cinema’s most magnetic presences—even if his latest project doesn’t do terribly much with him. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMay 18, 2023
The movie is a polished, well-made affair (Depp’s smallpox pustules look scarily state-of-the-art) but also a disappointingly juiceless one, with little of the messy go-for-broke filmmaking energy that Maïwenn has brought to better, rougher works like “Polisse.” Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 16, 2023
With all the recent controversy surrounding Depp, not to mention Maïwenn herself, the result of their collaboration is a handsome period piece that feels both flat and shallow, and certainly far from any scandale. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeApr 21, 2024
It’s a curiously inert affair: constrained, corseted, passionless and saddled with a lumpen, Depp-shaped deadweight where there should be a pulse-racing core of power and desire. Read full review
40
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 19, 2023
It is as glitzy and gaudy as the festival itself, with its vacuous politics drowned out by the thunderous sound of it slapping its own back. Read full review
40
BBCNicholas BarberMay 18, 2023
The combination of Depp and Maïwenn may have seemed like a dangerous one, but on this occasion they're playing it safe. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 16, 2023
It’s mostly handsomely shot, with painterly vistas of the French countryside and lots of dazzling Versailles interiors. But the central relationship never convinces – it all just feels like a performance, put on for the benefit of the courtiers and by extension, us. Read full review
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