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Mixed or average reviews- based on 291 Ratings

  • Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Kirsten Dunst, Rip Torn
  • Summary: Sofia Coppola brings to the screen a fresh interpretation of the life of legendary teenage queen Marie Antoinette, France's most misunderstood monarch. (Sony)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 37
  2. Negative: 5 out of 37
  1. 100
    Kristen Dunst is pitch-perfect in the title role.
  2. In the revisionist Marie Antoinette, writer-director Sofia Coppola and actress Kirsten Dunst take a remote and no doubt misunderstood historical figure, the controversial and often despised Queen of France at the time of the French Revolution, and brings her into sharp focus as a living, breathing human being with flaws, foibles, passions, intelligence and warm affections.
  3. 60
    Precious little history of any kind shows its face in Marie Antoinette. The omission is strategic.
  4. 38
    Three adjectives spring to mind when describing Marie Antoinette: odd, irritating, and tedious.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 115
  2. Negative: 38 out of 115
  1. Everything about this movie screams a full rated revolution to a modern outlook on Marie, music, and France. The tone, the structure, and a strong lead provide an exquisite film. Expand
  2. RobertI.
    8
    Visually ravishing, the film captures the imperial grandeur of 18th century France, animated by the shallow, exquisite creatures of fashion. What dresses! What shoes! Captures excess without cloying or beating us over the heads, Coppola's fresh interpretation remains underrated and misunderstood. Expand
  3. DanB.
    7
    My score might have been higher had I not sat right in front of 4 ~13 year old girls, who kept on whispering about the movie being boring and asking when the heads would be chopped off. That said: this film is light on plot, light on dialogue, is slow and contemplative -- if that sounds good to you, then you'll probably find it worthwhile, even if you do not think it's the greatest film. I think Coppolla tried to make a very hard kind of movie, to give a kind of impression, a feeling, rather than a story -- and that's pretty hard. She gets an A for effort, at least. Expand
  4. MarkK.
    4
    I wanted to like this movie, really. However, it is too long and after the novelty of having 80s music set to 19th century costume wears off, the movie drags. A disappointment. Expand

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