Planetarium
Vision Films | Release Date: August 11, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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9
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2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
CineVueJohn BleasdaleSep 17, 2016
Few of Planetarium's many strands are neatly tied together. There's an ambition to almost every shot as Zlotowski creates a rarified version of nighttime Paris. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAug 17, 2017
Although Planetarium may not wholly satisfy as the kind of statement film it so ambitiously aims to be, this intriguing drama, confidently directed by Rebecca Zlotowski (who co-wrote with Robin Campillo) proves a singular, at times haunting experience. Read full review
60
Screen DailyGraham FullerSep 17, 2016
Rebecca Zlotowski’s third feature packs in so many ideas and themes, and boasts so many ravishing and enigmatic images, that it seems choked with riches. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAug 11, 2017
The result is a bit of a mess and an oftentimes dull one at that, the kind of bland cinematic Euro-pudding that Miramax used to release in bulk back in the day. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 10, 2017
Tidiness isn’t crucial, but watching Planetarium often feels like making contact with fragments of a great three-hour movie. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloAug 9, 2017
Numerous potentially interesting ideas orbit one another in Planetarium, but none boasts sufficient gravity to merit a landing, it seems. Read full review
50
The Film StageNick NewmanSep 17, 2016
Little is left after a while until, finally, Planetarium doesn’t conclude so much as come to an end, and the lasting impression is one of bitterness — a bitterness at once sweetened and worsened by memories of the genuinely great work it had promised and, at turns, even embodied. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 17, 2016
A beautiful wisp of an idea that is seldom compelling and almost never coherent, Planetarium squanders an irresistibly alluring premise. Read full review
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The PlaylistRodrigo PerezSep 17, 2016
To her credit, Zlotowski’s film does capture the lulling feeling of a séance, but there’s a gossamer-thin thread between the mysterious and the mystifying and perhaps her delicately ephemeral film just doesn’t know how to recognize the difference. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschSep 17, 2016
The movie is all tease and no follow-through, letting its story leak out in dribs and drabs that fail to gather any momentum or meaning, let alone mystery. Read full review
40
TheWrapRobert AbeleSep 17, 2016
Though its mix of European romanticism, lustrous trappings, and nostalgic movie love can occasionally make Planetarium feel like a galaxy all its own, the effect is more illusory than enveloping. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineWes GreeneAug 6, 2017
Given all its clumsily executed genre detours and tonal fluctuations, Rebecca Zlutowski’s film suggests an amateur juggling act. Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 17, 2016
Planetarium is an inert and slipshod movie — messy and aimless, a period tale told with zero period atmosphere (you have to keep reminding yourself that it’s not taking place in 2016), built around a situation with enough possibilities to make you wish that the director, Rebecca Zlotowski, had taken advantage of at least one of them. Read full review
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