Miss Julie
Wrekin Hill Entertainment | Release Date: December 5, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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9
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneDec 3, 2014
The film is no tearjerker, but it makes the stage play's hidebound, soul-baring pleasures mesmerizing on screen, and without copping to reductivism. Read full review
83
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicDec 2, 2014
Ullmann’s version of Miss Julie exists in a special cinematic category; it’s toxic, it’s hypnotic, and passionately translates Strindberg’s genius instinct for enlightening the multi-layered psychological spectrums of human desire for lust and power. It’s unforgettable in every sense of the word. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernJan 3, 2015
Director Liv Ullmann's PBS-pretty adaptation of the 1888 August Strindberg play lacks brio but is compelling thanks to its three tough performers. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyDec 5, 2014
Miss Julie is a rather strange experience, with its consistently static medium shots of the three actors, as they roar their lines at one another. But it has an undeniable power. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyMar 12, 2015
The film is visually bland, with only a couple of bookending outdoor sequences around a handful of interior sets. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreDec 10, 2014
A handsome production, its few settings (indoors and outdoors) painterly and period-perfect. It’s entirely too long for a filmed chamber drama of such limited stakes. But Ullmann’s adaptation reminds us that the gap between “those people,” now called “the one percent,” and the rest of the world will always be ripe for conflict, drama and tension, no matter how much we evolve. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrDec 4, 2014
It’s a handsomely mounted, intentionally claustrophobic film; too claustrophobic over the long haul, with relentless close-ups that constrict the galvanic emotions on display. Read full review
63
New York PostSara StewartDec 3, 2014
Farrell feels like a weak link here, never quite as masterfully manipulative or brutish as the role calls for. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen HoldenDec 4, 2014
Aside from the change of setting, Ms. Ullmann’s version is quite orthodox. Much more convincing than Mike Figgis’s 1999 screen adaptation, starring Saffron Burrows, it is a grueling slog through a hell of torment, cruelty and suffering. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierDec 4, 2014
Liv Ullmann’s screen version of August Strindberg’s 19th-century drama is an austere, pared-down take that does one thing extremely well: It allows actors Jessica Chastain, Samantha Morton and especially Colin Farrell to shine. But this emotionally brutal work is anything but cinematically engaging. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyDec 4, 2014
The heat that should saturate the film as betrayals mount and boundaries are broken flickers and dies many times over Miss Julie's languid two-plus hours. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanDec 4, 2014
Miss Julie is a strangely clinical movie experience. It’s a story that makes an impression without leaving a mark. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 4, 2014
Miss Julie has almost everything — good actors, impeccable sets and direction rich in emotional detail — but it lacks madness and passion, and without those elements, it becomes a mere intellectual exercise. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyDec 2, 2014
Both Chastain and Farrell are resourceful, intelligent actors who can be riveting together moment to moment. But the disconcerting thing about Ullmann’s blandly handsome movie is that neither of these key characters comes fully into focus. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveyDec 2, 2014
The three thesps are impressive, with Chastain and Farrell delivering fevered performances that might have been knockouts on the boards, but in this respectfully flat approach feel a bit overscaled — you can see their virtuoso technique at work. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAbby GarnettDec 2, 2014
Despite a few dynamite scenes from Chastain, Miss Julie's cruelty is more potent than its craft. Read full review
50
The DissolveNoel MurrayDec 2, 2014
Ullmann’s Miss Julie is as dominated by long speeches and conversations as Strindberg’s, but those scenes don’t play as well when the two would-be lovers are sidling up to each other in close-up, practically panting. Read full review
30
TheWrapInkoo KangJan 8, 2015
The writer-director never finds a coherent point of view (or a way out of Strindberg’s three-wall play structure), and Miss Julie ends up merely a whirlwind of moods without a center, as changeable and as random as a TV flipping channels. Read full review
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