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Rebecca

2020

Ben Wheatley

Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes ...

4.8

3,316

Mystery. Drama. Romance. Thriller After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim's first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"If 'High Rise' director Ben Wheatley seems like an unusual choice to remake Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca,' you'll be relieved that he doesn't ruin the Alfred Hitchcock classic that came before."	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"In place of atmosphere and suspense, [Wheatley] delivers blandly glossy melodrama (...) Uneven pacing aside, the new Rebecca is perfectly watchable"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Ben Wheatley’s Instagram-ready du Maurier adaptation is shiny and dull (...) Soapy where Hitchcock’s interpretation was stiff"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	Rebecca 2.0 is sometimes quite enjoyable in all its silliness and campiness and brassiness, and in some ways, gets closer to the narrative shape of the original novel than the Hitchcock film (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Scott Thomas gives seductive shape to the repressed lesbian desires that Hitchcock and Anderson could only hint (...) But the dizzyingly mysterious, romantic spell you want from this story is never allowed to take hold"	NEU
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Even if it mostly feels like a collision of Downton Abbey with Gatsby, this easy-on-the-eye drama is gleamingly accessible"	POS
United States	Beatrice Loayza The Playlist	"It goes down easy enough thanks to Lily James and the already-delicious plot, but Wheatley’s imitation fumbles when it matters most."	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A remake that constantly reminds us it will never be as suspenseful, as witty, or as unsettling as its own predecessor"	NEG
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"In a film that’s gorgeously realized from a craft perspective, the storytelling stumbles become even harder to ignore."	NEU
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"This is Ben Wheatley on a different register: a bigger scale, a more mainstream approach. There’s much to like — but the shadow of Alfred Hitchcock looms large (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Don Kaye Den of Geek	"Extremely faithful to the novel (...) the director does stumble in the third act"	NEU
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"A pale imitation of the Hitchcock classic (...) Ben Wheatley has liberated it from those pesky ambiguities and turned it into an inane, leaden drama."	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Armie Hammer and Lily James look great, but that’s all (...) Gorgeous aesthetic given favor over taut storytelling (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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