Anna Nicole
Lifetime | Release Date: June 29, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
New York PostLinda StasiJun 26, 2013
Season 1 Review: A true-life movie so good, so well-written and yet sleazy enough to satisfy even the cheesiest viewers among us. Read full review
70
PopMattersMatthew WollinJun 28, 2013
Season 1 Review: Bruckner takes on the role with gusto, and she and Harron together create someone whose unthinking commitment to the pursuit of “F-U-N” (in Anna’s phrasing) achieves something close to sublimity. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: The end result isn’t a very good biopic and certainly not a noble one. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterAllison KeeneJun 28, 2013
Season 1 Review: The bad wigs and fluctuating accents are counteracted by Mary Harron's dream-like direction, and the emphasis on plot points rather than character development is occasionally shaken by some of the noteworthy performances (such as Virginia Madsen as Smith's hard-bitten mother). Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: As guilty pleasures go, this one certainly doesn’t lack for moments at which to hoot. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJun 26, 2013
Season 1 Review: It’s a bleak and predictable story, not just because of where it took Anna Nicole, but because of where it took those around her. Read full review
30
SalonWilla PaskinJun 28, 2013
Season 1 Review: Anna Nicole has an extraordinarily hazy point of view, tonally sympathetic to Smith but unwilling to explore any of the details, sloppy but particularizing, that might mitigate and humanize her increasingly terrible behavior. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: There's virtually no intelligent or convincing exploration of character in the film, beyond the shopworn theory that she craved fame to validate herself, but traded whatever "self" she had to get it. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyMelissa MaerzJun 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: The only way to get through the whole thing is to take a shot of peach schnapps whenever Smith blows kisses, poledances, or trips and falls down. Read full review
10
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJul 1, 2013
Season 1 Review: It’s storytelling at its most shallow and unsatisfying. Read full review
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