Coco Chanel
Lifetime | Release Date: September 13, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
New York PostAdam Buckman
Season 1 Review: Bobulova is delightful to watch, playing the younger Coco as winsome, stubborn, independent and gifted. MacLaine, seen always with a cigarette between two fingers, has less screen time, but she commands every minute in which she appears. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Shirley MacLaine will get most of the attention for playing fashion legend Coco Chanel in this smart-looking and solidly crafted new Lifetime biopic premiering Saturday night. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterMarilyn Moss
Season 1 Review: We don't get a great deal of character development, nor do we always get the truth, but with Coco, there is plenty to see and do. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Season 1 Review: While little of this is boring, the movie only sizzles and sparks when it jumps out of flashback mode and into the 1950s "present," with Ms. MacLaine as a slightly cranky and tottering but totally grand old dame. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: MacLaine, who apparently decided not to bother to attempt a French accent, isn't served well by a script that essentially has her introducing flashbacks. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Perhaps appropriately, the period trappings and costumes are impeccable, part of a miniseries that weaves six production logos into its hemline--suggesting more commerce than art in its conception. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid Wiegand
Season 1 Review: Oh, it's not very French and the dialogue is absurd, but somehow from this divine mess emerges something that at least approximates a woman you have to admire. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLeah Greenblatt
Season 1 Review: Czech actress Barbora Bobulova has the greater misfortune of acting out Harlequin-romance shenanigans amid Pepé le Pew accents. Worst of all, the subject's revolutionary designs are almost entirely marginalized.
40
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: The movie looks great, like a very extended perfume commercial. But it has no substance. Read full review
40
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: Because it is such a loopy work of hagiography, it is never getting her right. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: A little whitewashing is forgivable in a biopic, but to make a movie about the most influential figure in fashion history in which she spends more time moping around about her boyfriends than she does designing clothes is infuriating. Read full review
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