Miss Julie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: December 10, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
10
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
87
Mr. ShowbizF.X. Feeney
Though modest in scale, this romantic gem constitutes yet another superb leap in the evolution of Figgis' career. Read full review
75
USA TodayStaff [Not Credited]
August Strindberg's psychological drama of erotic class conflict gets a bracing, claustrophobic workout from director Mike Figgis. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Effectively cast and shot with exciting immediacy. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Intense, erotic and willful. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldPhoebe Flowers
Fiery but turgid adaptation of the 1890 August Strindberg play. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Figgis's film doesn't match its reach. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
A torrid and surprisingly cinematic chamber piece. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Figgis never frees the play enough from the stage to fill the screen. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
A solidly filmed great play. Read full review
50
Film.comHenry Cabot Beck
Using current hand-held camera technology to ape the political and esthetic sensibility of the 1960s. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
The dialogue may be crisply idiomatic, but there's finally nothing realistic about the speed with which the characters hurtle through their mood swings and power plays. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
A brutally claustrophobic battle of wits and will, whose cruel nature ultimately seems to turn on the audience. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Figgis remains a compelling storyteller, holding you with the intensity of his vision and his mastery of nuance. Read full review
50
NewsweekAndrea C. Basora
It does justice to its source material -- and that may be the problem. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
An arid, uninvolving film that suffers from Burrows' miscasting as the vain Julie. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
His [Director Mike Figgis's] techniques do make the film at least watchable. Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Overwritten, overextended and clunkily symbolic Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
This intense psycho-sexual drama doesn't easily lend itself to the camera. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
As dreary an hour-and-a-half as you could ever want to spend at the movies. Read full review
20
Village VoiceAmy Taubin
Figgis's frenetic and grossly self-aggrandizing adaption of Strindberg's worse-for-wear two-hander about the battle between the sexes and the classes. Read full review
10
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
A strong contender for Worst Picture of All Time. Read full review
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