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House of Gucci

100 Movies of 2021

House of Gucci

2021

Ridley Scott

Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto ...

6.2

14,573

Drama Tracking the lives of the Gucci clan, known for creating one of the elite fashion houses and putting its stamp on the fashion business over the course of decades.

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Directed by Ridley Scott, in what is easily his finest work since 'Gladiator,' the film is absorbing because it takes the world it shows us on its own coldly flamboyant terms."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is a trashtacular watch that I wouldn’t have missed for the world. But it fails to settle on a consistent tone — overlong and undisciplined"
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"[It] is both too much and not enough (...) 'Gucci' might have been a better movie if it had fully committed to the high camp its Blondie-soundtracked trailer promises"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"In the end, this is Lady Gaga’s film: her watchability suffuses the picture, an arrabbiata sauce of wit, scorn and style (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"Howlingly inept biopic is all dressed up with nowhere to go (...) Probably [Scott's] worst film since 'The Counsellor' (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The script does its job, dutifully (...) It’s tonally unsure, and the same, I think, can be said in this instance of Scott’s direction (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"[It is] unsettling, entertaining, and really quite unusual: like next year’s fashions from a more extreme house, it grows on you"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"A pale, ugly film whose underwhelming glamour doesn’t match the grandeur of a European fashion house. It looks as pricey as a knock-off Gucci bag on Canal Street (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Canny and engrossing (...) 'House of Gucci' is a calculated, highly controlled amalgam of the stylish and the tacky."
		Stephanie Zacharek Time	"Gaga's performance is wonderful because she's alive to every moment."
		Derek Smith Slant	"[It] will have audiences leaving theaters knowing all of the facts related to this wild chapter in Gucci history but little understanding of why any of it actually happened (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"If everyone in 'House of Gucci' is playing a different instrument, Scott ensures they’re all playing the same song."
		Tara Bennett IGN	"Too much of the narrative is given over to side characters and scenes that are overindulgent, which lessens the potency of the tragic story and our investment in where they all end up."
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"[It] delivers the goods, especially with a top-drawer cast throwing it all against the wall."
		Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"I enjoyed all of this, and yet, I wanted more. Something is missing here. The unbalanced nature of the film (...) ultimately hurts 'House of Gucci.'"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"Be warned, fellow best actress contenders: The power of Gaga is undeniable as she rules 'House of Gucci' with powerful panache and addictive swagger (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Rishma Dosani Metro	"There seem to be loads of threads fighting for the spotlight in the film, leaving us with a messy, disappointing and ultimately forgettable end product (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Patrick Cremona Radio Times	"There's plenty to relish in the latest epic from Ridley Scott – even as it suffers from pacing issues and tonal inconsistencies (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Dana Stevens Slate	"There is indeed lots to be found in 'House of Gucci' once you let go of your expectations of, say, learning anything about the Gucci company or understanding the characters' motivations."
		Adam Graham Detroit News	"'House of Gucci' is big and bold, a colorful romp that knows when it comes to fashion, the most important rule is to look good no matter what. Consider that test passed with flying colors."
		Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"Smart, funny and camp, it's not interested in keeping a straight face, strutting its way to glory (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"A film that would have benefited from a coherent silhouette and a little hemming of its tiresome runtime (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"[It] boasts strong performances and is hammy enough to be occasionally enjoyable, but falls flat in the overall effectiveness of its story (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Nick Levine NME	"Few films can build Oscar buzz and feel like an instant camp classic, but few films are quite like 'House of Gucci' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Helen O'Hara Time Out	"A feast of enjoyable scheming, OTT performances and terrible accents (...) The good news is that it is undeniably a proper drama and, for the most part, wildly entertaining (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Travers ABC News	"The year's most seductive guilty pleasure (...) If there’s such a thing as a fun ride into the dark night of the soul, 'House of Gucci' is it. And it's a doozy"
		Mel Valentin Screen Anarchy	"A spectacularly melodramatic, campy soap opera, a morality tale and object lesson in the perils of combining unmitigated greed with Olympian hubris"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Tacky (...) Bad taste can be forgivable, and even an asset, in the world of fashion, but monotony is not"
		Alex Godfrey Empire	"It's hard to take 'House Of Gucci' seriously, because it never seems to take itself seriously. Yet with such glee being had by those involved, it's an infectious, bizarro bit of fun (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Louie Fecou Ready Steady Cut	"No style, no substance (...) A total mess of a movie that descends into pantomime and manages to turn the sexy world of fashion into a snooze fest (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Katie Rife AV Club	"Ridley Scott's melodrama about the Italian fashion family has its moments, but not enough of them (...) Gaga might not deliver the most subtle performance, but she's certainly magnetic"
		Matt Cipolla The Film Stage	"Despite the reasons 'House of Gucci' doesn't work, none are damning enough to make a bad movie. Yet Scott's efforts, and especially those of Johnson and Bentivegna, just don't keep up"
		Kristy Puchko Mashable	"A swooning, snarling, and knowingly outlandish film that invites audiences into the glorious rush of excess and its evils"
		Charles Bramesco The Playlist	"Sporadically amusing, without going nearly far enough, the film never hits the camp highs we've been led to expect from a story implicitly dusted with cocaine no one’s ever actually glimpsed snorting"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Adam Driver and Lady Gaga have legit chemistry together (...) 'House of Gucci' feels coldly calculating when it should have been flush and warm with scandalous sensationalism (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

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