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Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

  • Starring: Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Sienna Miller
  • Summary: 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)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 27
  2. Negative: 6 out of 27
  1. 75
    Miller is wincingly good at playing up the innocence.
  2. Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    60
    A brave bid to recreate a modern American tragedy, with a revelatory turn by its lead actress.
  3. 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.
  4. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. [Anonymous]
    10
    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. Expand
  2. PeerP.
    8
    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 Expand
  3. This film is so pretentious I can feel Andy Warhol awkwardly turning in his grave. This serious attempt to expose the abuse of love plays like a preschool playground romance. It is shallow and of little value to those who can remember the 60s or the MTV generation. It's appeal is representative of glamour and on the surface is enjoyable as a caricature of history. Despite strong casting the illusion of performance is evidence of style over substance. Hickenlooper exploits the memory of Warhol and Sedgwick and disrespects art in the process. Collapse
  4. NatalieR.
    4
    I had such high hopes for this movie, but it fails to capture.

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