Stalin's Wife
Release Date: April 29, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
What results is an intimate, chatty film, both cheeky and thorough, the kind of high-class historical gossip you might get if an eminent Soviet historian like Robert Conquest or Richard Pipes went to work for the National Enquirer. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
There's plenty of passion beneath this movie's unadorned surface. Read full review
60
Film ThreatPhil Hall
If Stalin's Wife doesn't provide solid answers, it nonetheless offers a fascinating tapestry of love, madness, politics, suspicions and jealousies. Read full review
60
VarietyEddie Cockrell
Results are solid, if stylistically unspectacular. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
Tsukerman is not interested in disproving or discounting theories, but merely assembling them. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
There's interesting material about Soviet history, but searching for answers about the revolutionary's spouse turns out to be less than engrossing. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A dense biographical collage. Read full review
50
New York PostRussell Scott Smith
Unless you're already into this stuff, it'll be hard to stay awake through the documentary, which was made on a low budget with technical values that are decidedly amateurish. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Though serviceable as a primer on Soviet history under Stalin, the film's sloppy assemblage of dull interviews and stock footage never comes close to illuminating a life that the Russian people have long cherished as a precious enigma. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Shakily cobbled together from stock footage and new interviews with authors and family, Stalin’s Wife is nearly barbarous in its denial of aesthetic pleasure. The whole thing looks like a late-night-TV infomercial. Read full review
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