Marie Antoinette
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: October 20, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
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Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
10
Negative:
5
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100
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Coppola captures the luxe insularity of Marie Antoinette's world in a way that leaves no doubt why the revolution had to happen. The picture's final image is a moment of devastating stillness that wouldn't be out of place in Luchino Visconti's end-of-an-era masterpiece "The Leopard." Read full review
100
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Coppola brilliantly conjures the young queen's insular world, in which she was both isolated and claustrophobically scrutinized. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Kristen Dunst is pitch-perfect in the title role. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Marie Antoinette gives a wide berth to the conventions of period dramas, especially their time-capsule remove, and instead tries to mainline the singular personal experience of the arch-villainess of French history (and freedom history, for that matter). The result is a startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent. Read full review
88
New York PostKyle Smith
Coppola works in weird ways, but the real Versailles was so much weirder. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A gorgeous confection, packed with gargantuan gowns and pornographic displays of pastrystuffs, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is also a sharp, smart look at the isolation, ennui and supercilious affairs of the rich, famous and famously pampered. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter Travers
With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Coppola's stranded royal suggests that at heart, Marie Antoinette was just a simple girl who wanted to have fun, and got her head handed to her. Read full review
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Destined to become this year's love-it-or-hate-it movie. Is it OK to say I merely liked it a lot? Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
In the revisionist Marie Antoinette, writer-director Sofia Coppola and actress Kirsten Dunst take a remote and no doubt misunderstood historical figure, the controversial and often despised Queen of France at the time of the French Revolution, and brings her into sharp focus as a living, breathing human being with flaws, foibles, passions, intelligence and warm affections. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
A thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song. What to do for pleasure? Go see this movie, for starters. Read full review
80
EmpireIan Freer
Marie Antoinette is gorgeous, giddy, gilded filmmaking. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
In casting an all-American Jersey girl and surrounding her with Manolo Blahniks and the Strokes, Coppola draws a connection between her audience (domestically, at least) and the doomed dauphine, who is likewise insulated and distracted from her country's pointless involvement in a disastrous foreign war that is bankrupting its government and starving its people – and all the while she spends, spends, spends. Read full review
75
PremiereAaron Hillis
Marie Antoinette churns a symphony out of a single note, too light and hermetically sealed in the minds of Coppola and her queen to transcend its artfully cared-for fluffiness. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
It's true that this sugarcoated romp doesn't take itself, or its source material, particularly seriously, but if you're confident your grasp of European history can withstand the assault of two hours of bubbly entertainment, Marie Antoinette guarantees you a good time. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Coppola and her crew were allowed to shoot at Versailles -- family pedigree does pay dividends, apparently -- which gives the film a needed whiff of reality. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Ultimately, Coppola's pastel-colored take on Marie's life is beguiling and annoying in equal measure. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
As art, the movie is neither shallow nor profound, just inconsequential. Yet Coppola is too clever a filmmaker to dismiss the movie out of hand. If her film is mostly surface then she skims with style. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
This is one of the most immediate, personal costume dramas ever made, and so it's not unseemly to consider how the writer-director and her heroine overlap. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The cast is uniformly non-French, and restrained to the point of rigor mortis. Dunst is the movie's strongest and weakest element. Her natural charm carries us through the scenery, at the same time her distinct Americanness rings false in every scene. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
For all the technical beauty of Marie Antoinette, there's nobody at home at Versailles. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Coppola won't win any Oscars, but the movie is a contender for cinematography, costumes and production design, and it's a lock for Prettiest Pastries. Read full review
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