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Vox Lux

2018

Brady Corbet

Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin ...

5.4

929

Drama. Musical Celeste (Natalie Portman) is an international pop star who must confront her legacy in the hours leading up to a major concert.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A bold, often brilliant trip through the celebrity spin cycle (...) [It is] powered in its second half by a riveting performance by Natalie Portman"	POS
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"A deliciously rich treatise on toxic fame and weapons of mass seduction (...) On a technical level, 'Vox Lux' is full of sparkly, inventive craftsmanship"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"For all its fancy style and philosophical posturing, 'Vox Lux' wears its vacuousness on its sleeve."	NEG
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"A powerful, haunting film in part because Portman is a powerful, haunting presence — you can’t turn away from her, even if you occasionally want to."	POS
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"Portman is captivating (...) But the film yields no insights into stardom’s perils that surpass, say, the recent Netflix documentary on Lady Gaga’s life (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"An audacious story about a survivor who becomes a star, and a deeply satisfying, narratively ambitious jolt of a movie."	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"I reckon that Portman tips 'Vox Lux' off balance (...) Corbet’s second film is not a departure from his first, still less a renunciation."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] damn near explodes off the screen (...) You should prepared to be wowed by Natalie Portman (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"The flaws are so unapologetic they’re almost virtues (...) Glitchy yet absorbing, panicky yet strangely wise (...) Exceptionally unboring."	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"[It] doesn’t even seem to have the energy to say anything interesting, let alone something that makes sense (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Natalie Portman is outrageously enjoyable as a troubled pop star (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Portman gives her fiercest, most memorable performance since 'Black Swan' in Corbet’s enjoyably subversive satire (...) Combines social history with psychodrama in a way that is startling and highly original (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Corbet has made an insidious little masterpiece, one that uses modern techniques and a modern visual lexicon to show you everything that's absolutely dead within modernity."	POS
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Corbett and his cinematographer Lol Crawley stage some gorgeous and ominous moments in this first half (...) It doesn’t come together, though, neither in form nor idea."	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"A film of intense ambition, dealing with heavyweight themes in a way some might find glib or contentious (...) Like the film or not, 'Vox Lux' shows that Corbet is the real thing"	POS
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"The film becomes so caught up in how unhappy and mean Celeste has become that it becomes any other cautionary tale about the price of fame, instead of the more subversive, ambitious narrative it was building up to that point."	NEG
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"The film is an onslaught, sometimes silly, sometimes profound, but always riveting and emotional, and dazzlingly sure of itself (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[A] dead-on portrait of a lost soul who may never quite find herself but who makes an uneasy peace with what the world has made of her (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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