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Factory Girl
EMAILPRINTThe Weinstein Company

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 27 critic reviews
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Based on 20 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Aaron Richard Golub
Captain Mauzner (also story)
Simon Monjack (story)
Directed by: George Hickenlooper
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 29, 2006
DVD: July 17, 2007
Running Time: 87 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive drug use, strong sexual content, nudity and language
Starring Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Meredith Ostrom, and Beth Grant
Factory Girl imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s "it girl" Edie Sedgwick (Miller), the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. (The Weinstein Company)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
This is a movie about power, and its spectacle is that of a woman losing all of it.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Pearce makes you see why Edie found Warhol as irresistible as he found her. His otherworldly eyes focus on both who she is and what she represents. He sees her as a star.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
If the filmmaking is in some ways awkward and elementary, Hickenlooper's attitude toward his subject is more complex, and more admirable.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As Factory Girl more than acknowledges, Edie Sedgwick's downward spiral was ultimately her own doing. Yet even as the film captures the silk-screen outline of her rise and fall, it never quite colors in who she was.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
If not for Sienna Miller's engaging portrayal of Edie Sedgwick, Factory Girl would have little to offer.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Miller and Pearce are admirably determined to do their complex characters justice, but the generic script turns them into enigmatic symbols, locked in a hollow time capsule.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
For Hickenlooper and Mauzner, Sedgwick is more interesting for whom she slept with than who she was. Their movie may indict Warhol for exploiting Sedgwick, but they're just as guilty.
Read Full Review >Empire Staff (Not credited)
A brave bid to recreate a modern American tragedy, with a revelatory turn by its lead actress.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Director George Hickenlooper captures the energy and ultra-irony of Warhol's scene, but his attempts to give the film a conventional biopic arc end up wallowing in dime-store psychology.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Factory Girl lives fast and dies young, but the corpse it leaves isn't really all that good-looking.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
It's a peculiar movie, frantic and useless, with a hyperactive camera that gives us no more than fleeting impressions of Edie ecstatic at parties, Edie strung out on drugs, Edie lying mostly naked on a bed, with her skin splotchy from injections.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The bar for historical accuracy in Hollywood biopics hasn't always been this high -- paradoxically, it's been rising even as the public has become more ignorant of history.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
The wild, unhinged life of Andy Warhol's favorite "superstar," Edie Sedgwick, is refashioned in Factory Girl as a tame biopic with little feel for the 1960s New York Underground.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Despite, or perhaps because of, a flurry of 11th-hour recutting and reshoots -- the film feels rushed and unfocused.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
For a movie about the tumultuous friendships among artists, musicians, and filmmakers during one of the 20th century's periods of creative ferment, Factory Girl is remarkably incurious about cinema, music, and art.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The movie ends up feeling superficial and mechanical. Warhol is a cut-and-dried villain rather than a complex individual.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
It's lively but chaotic and evasive. The period re-creation switches on and off. We get a sense of what the silver-walled Factory was like, but not the rest of swinging Manhattan in the '60s.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The two central performances are competent but uninspired -- and annoyingly mannered. Pearce's Warhol is a one-note, irresponsible villain and Miller's Sedgwick is a shallow, pretentious party girl who chain-smokes her way through every scene.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
It was probably hopeless from the start: The Warhol cosmos is too weird and complicated to lend itself to a conventional Hollywood biopic, and this one is conventional down to Warhol's first glimpse of his future "superstar" bouncing up and down vivaciously in tacky slow motion.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
We find ourselves wondering about the real story, not this version.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Factory Girl is not, strictly speaking, a bad movie. It's something worse: an irredeemably banal drama about some of the most protean, contradictory creative forces of the 1960s.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
The kindest thing to be said about this deluxe photo spread of a film is that Sienna Miller's Edie and Guy Pearce's Andy capture their characters' images and body language with relative precision.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly David Ehrenstein
Sienna Miller captures much of Edie’s physical manner and some of her voice (though she’s nowhere near deep enough), but there’s nothing she can do with material that requires her to mope and pout for the bulk of her screen time.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
It's more like "That Girl" on speed than anything else.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nathan Lee
Poor little girl, chewed up in the Factory machinery. It was inevitable, perhaps, that a biopic of the Pop princess would stick to pop psychology, but did it have to feel as flat as a silkscreen? With its hackneyed party scenes and jet-set montages, Factory Girl fails even at frivolity.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
The film strays so far from verisimilitude that it feels more like a big celebrity dress-up party than history brought to life. The profoundly silly Internet favorite series "Yacht Rock" offered a more convincing take on pop-culture history and that was at least going for laughs.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.1 (out of 10) based on 20 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Peer P. gave it an8:
Not bad (as it was made out to be), great performances on the part of Sienna Miller (as Edie Sedgwick) and Guy Pearce (as Andy Warhol), the story was poorly adapted and conceived but as a character study (studies) it is great
Mark K. gave it a7:
Disappointing. Another movie where the main character is lured into a glitzy underworld, only to regret it and try to escape. Ho, hum. The saving grace is the beauty Sienna Miller, but she could only do so much.
Rick S. gave it a2:
Edie is such a wretched and vapid human being, this mind numbing biopic makes me loathe this pop art culture even more. It's a shame to waste Guy Pearce's solid portrayal of Andy Warhol.
[Anonymous] gave it a10:
I loved this movie - Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce did fantastic jobs of portraying Edie and Andy - it might not be perfect, but so what??? Perhaps it doesn't portray Andy or Edie completely realistic, so go read some books and see some movies. This is just a glimpse into that world and the actors did fantastically well on their characters at least.
Scott A. gave it a9:
I saw this movie a month ago and loved it. Im surprised to see all of the negative reviews. If you liked The Doors and Wonderland than will like this movie. Maybe I'm just a sucker for movies that involve drugs, sex, greed, vanity, fame, power, envy and jealousy.
Enrique gave it an8:
A good biopic.
Blanco A. gave it an8:
What a heartbreaking film. Sienna Miller is breathtaking in this piece... I don't think I'll be able to get her performance out of my head for days.
