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Seberg

2019

Benedict Andrews

Kristen Stewart, Jack O'Connell, Vince Vaughn, Stephen Root ...

5.4

882

Drama. Mystery Inspired by true events, Seberg tells the story of french star and darling of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), who in the late 1960s was targeted by the illegal FBI surveillance programme Cointelpro in Los Angeles. Seberg's political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie) made her a target of the FBI's ruthless attempts to disrupt, discredit and expose the Black Power movement. ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Kristen Stewart's subtle, enigmatic performance as the ill-fated starlet merits a thornier screenplay than this smooth biopic-cum-espionage drama provides"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The luminous Kristen Stewart keeps you glued throughout, giving a coolly compelling performance that becomes steadily more poignant as the subject unravels"
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"It’s difficult, however, to latch on to Seberg’s tragic descent as star, do-gooder, wife, lover or mother when the overwrought and retro-fantastic movie around Stewart plays like an ad for a perfume"
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"'Seberg' has an old-fashioned glamour that can on occasion take your breath away. The styling and production design are impeccable"
		Xan Brooks The Guardian	"No doubt there’s a brilliant tragic drama to be made about the life of Seberg (...) But it emphatically isn’t Benedict Andrews’ bantamweight biopic (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A quietly involving story and a visually interesting collaboration between director Benedict Andrews (Una) and his star Kristen Stewart"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	Sometimes clever, often clumsy, and almost always denying Kristen Stewart the space she needs, 'Seberg' is a mess from start to finish"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	Even when the film fails to assemble its moments into a coherent whole, Stewart reminds us of Seberg’s once vibrant strength and defiance and stands up for her truth.
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"'Seberg' leaves a lot on the floor (...) but it’s a fitting tribute to a woman whose life was undone over her desire to make a difference"
		Monica Castillo rogerebert.com	"Stewart’s monotonous delivery makes her character sound uninterested and bored (...) there’s certainly a better version of this story that has yet to be told (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Kevin Ritchie Now Toronto	"Seberg’s story is hugely dramatic, infuriating and timely – well worth a screen adaptation – but we only get superficial insights into its subject"
		David Sexton London Evening Standard	"Terrific Kristen Stewart rises well above a heavy-handed script (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Stewart is a wonder (...) A snappy, absorbing watch (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Paddy Kehoe RTÉ	"Stewart's magnetic performance confirms something we feel reflexively about what Seberg might have been like. Surely there is Oscar material here. 'Seberg' is a must-see (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		James W. Anderson entertainment.ie	"While serviceable, 'Seberg' is just another in the long list of insipid biopics (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"This version of Seberg spouts simplistic, half-hearted slogans (...) By the end, it feels as if the real Seberg has been edged out of her own biopic (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"[A] tepid biopic (...) Fantastically flat (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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