Spencer
Neon | Release Date: November 5, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 53 Critic Reviews
Positive:
42
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2
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60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneNov 8, 2021
Unbalanced and unjust, Spencer is nonetheless perversely gripping. It dares to unbend, playing the angry fool amid kings-to-be, queens, princes, princesses, and all that jazz. Read full review
60
The IndependentGeoffrey MacnabNov 4, 2021
Stewart’s febrile, sensitive performance and Larraín’s trademark lyricism give it an emotional kick that such predecessors lacked. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 4, 2021
This an enjoyably strange spectacle, perhaps best appreciated by taking it less seriously than its creators intended. Read full review
60
BBCNicholas BarberSep 5, 2021
Stewart is such inspired casting that she makes all this eccentric nonsense watchable. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Nov 4, 2021
Stewart never seems to find an emotional reality for the icon she’s playing; the resonance begins and ends with the stunt casting of one hounded target of the bursting flashbulbs as another. Read full review
55
CNNBrian LowryNov 3, 2021
It's possible to admire the performance and still come away feeling director Pablo Larrain's fictionalized movie doesn't significantly add to a story many of us already know in exhaustive detail. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternNov 4, 2021
Pablo Larraín’s film, written by Steven Knight, calls itself a “fable from a true tragedy.” It might also be called a fever dream, a surreal nightmare, a reductio ad tedium or just an inherently limiting concept that slowly but inexorably squeezes the life out of itself. Read full review
50
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsNov 2, 2021
On paper Stewart seemed like an eccentric casting choice, yet she slinks into the material with grace and ease, and her trademark arsenal of half-met glares and anxiety-dashed grimaces perfectly express her desperate yearning to be free of prettified toff prison. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekSep 5, 2021
Stewart gives her all, as she always does. But she plays Diana as a mannered doe—all wrong, given that does are the most unmannered creatures on Earth. Her performance is clearly stylized, but it’s also packed with calculation and guile. Larraín turns this Diana into exactly the thing the royal family accused the real-life Diana of being, a willful and pouty constant complainer. Read full review
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