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Cruella

Cruella

2021

Craig Gillespie

Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser ...

6.4

18,620

Comedy. Thriller Before she becomes Cruella de Vil Teenaged Estella has a dream. She wishes to become a fashion designer, having been gifted with talent, innovation, and ambition all in equal measures. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having wound up penniless and orphaned in London at 12, 4 years later Estella runs wild through the city streets with her best friends and partners-in-(petty)-crime, Horace and Jasper, two ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"With a wickedly impressive fashion sense, an electric retro soundtrack and its sinfully entertaining title character, “Cruella” is the coolest Disney film in forever (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ben Travis Empire	"With killer looks, propulsive filmmaking, and stellar turns from Emmas Stone and Thompson, Cruella is a Spring/Summer ’21 treat (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Disney’s ‘Cruella’ manages to be tedious, transgressive, chaotic and inert, all at the same time (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Step back and make way for a sensational couple of Emmas: Stone and Thompson. Together, they are the highly strung dysfunctional double-act that post-lockdown cinema didn’t know it needed (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A deliciously dark, unexpectedly empowering origin story that's just the right amount of campy."	POS
United States	Brandon Katz The New York Observer	"The success of each talented department gives Cruella genuine distinction as a blend of The Devil Wears Prada and a PG Harley Quinn (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"An inelegant mix of The Devil Wears Prada and Joker, Cruella presents a dark origin story for the 101 Dalmatians villain, boasting fabulous costumes but otherwise lacking a distinctive style"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'Cruella' dazzles with spectacular outfits and offbeat origin story (...) Stone and Thompson are magical together (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"There’s plenty to enjoy if you don’t mind the fact that this new version of the character eschews fur, canine or otherwise, and doesn’t even smoke."	POS
United States	Jacob Oller Paste Magazine	"Cruella is a perhaps inherently flawed film, but whether its dark-but-Disney strangeness intrigues or repels, there’s often something to love and loathe in equal measure."	NEU
United States	Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"Contrary to the disposition of its titular character, Cruella requires dialing down the cynicism and buying in a little. But after such a wretchedly constrained and constricted year, who isn’t ready to revel in a little chaos?"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"The battle of the Emmas is as hard to resist on-screen (...) 'Cruella' isn’t a bad movie, even if its heroine is nowhere near bad enough."	POS
United States	Robert Daniels The Playlist	"After a formless two-plus hours and an embarrassing mid-credit scene, the overwritten slog that is 'Cruella' never gives a reason for its existence. Seriously, who wanted this movie?"	NEG
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Its messiness and silliness and soap-opera twists and sartorial turns are all in service to the only way to feasibly make Cruella palatable to kiddos: it’s really quite fun."	POS
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"'Cruella' takes a punishing two hours and 14 minutes to unravel an unnecessarily convoluted plot. Stone and Thompson deliver much to enjoy in this beautifully crafted fluffball, but the end result is a decorative distraction that never runs the risks it promises"	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"A heady exercise in style (...) whose high-gloss chaos seems designed less for cohesive storytelling or world-building than for looking super-cool in previews"	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"There's no denying that "Cruella" is stylish and kinetic, with a nasty edge that's unusual for a recent Disney live-action feature. But it's also exhausting, disorganized, and frustratingly inert (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"Cruella ignores the bad in favor of the brilliant, a more agreeable form of revisionism (...) As an opportunity for Emma Stone to purr and vamp in elaborate gowns, Cruella is plenty enjoyable"	POS
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"A thin Tim Burton knockoff, elaborately constructed but from lesser material (...) Stone tries hard to reconstruct and flesh out an icon, and does manage isolated moments when her Cruella looms as large as she’s supposed to"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	Cruella feels at least 15 minutes too long, and gives itself too many loose ends to tie up as its climax approaches. Even so, it’s hard not to be won over by its determination (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"This film is so sexy and cool and punk rock, you forget all about that Mickey logo and Cinderella’s cutesy castle (...) It's not so much a prequel as a distant relative (...) Enjoy 'Cruella' as a decadent and exhilarating standalone (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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