Personal Shopper
IFC Films | Release Date: March 10, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Durga Chew-Bose Mar 23, 2017
A riveting, impossible-to-shake masterwork that leaves the audience spooked, not by its telling but by its commitment to abstract themes of grief, solitude and coming of age. Read full review
100
Washington PostPat PaduaMar 16, 2017
You don’t need to be familiar with Assayas’s previous work to enjoy Personal Shopper. It works in two realms: as an engrossing ghost story and a drama that addresses profound matters of life and death. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 16, 2017
It’s a brilliant character study, a devilishly confounding murder mystery, a legitimately haunting psychological thriller, a hell of a ghost story — and one of the most memorable viewing experiences I’ve had in the last few years. Read full review
100
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiMar 10, 2017
They (Assayas/Stewart) have managed to out-do themselves with a work as mysterious, moving and haunting as anything that has materialized in a movie theater in a while. Read full review
100
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 20, 2016
It is actually Assayas’s best film for a long time, and Stewart’s best performance to date. Read full review
100
Time Out LondonGuy LodgeMay 20, 2016
Amid all the shifting mirrored surfaces and hazy ambiguities of Olivier Assayas's bewitching, brazenly unconventional ghost story, this much can be said with certainty: Kristen Stewart has become one hell of an actress. Read full review
90
We Got This CoveredJosh CabritaMar 10, 2017
Personal Shopper is enigmatic and inventive. This is daring and rule-bending filmmaking at a minimalist scale, a personal, contemplative horror movie, stripped of observable fright but full of unease. Read full review
90
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonMar 9, 2017
When one goes to see Kristen Stewart — among the most quicksilver of her generation's performers — in Olivier Assayas's Personal Shopper, a shape-shifting, resolutely of-this-moment ghost story that features her in nearly every frame, one goes not to watch her act but refract. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMar 9, 2017
Personal Shopper is a gripping portrait of solitude, which is to say it’s a hell of a one-woman show for Stewart, the rare actress who can blur into the background and magnetize the camera in the same scene. Read full review
90
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 9, 2017
Personal Shopper is sleek and spooky, seductive and suspenseful. It flirts with silliness, as ghost stories do. And also with heartbreak. Read full review
90
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeMay 22, 2016
If Personal Shopper doesn’t spell everything out for its viewers, it’s no more accommodating to Maureen; she, like us, must use her skills to intuit what’s happening around her and what the future will hold. It’s a captivating swirl for all involved. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 8, 2017
It's pure cinema, a hypnotic and haunting dream that tempts us to jump in and get lost. Do it. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineJake ColeSep 20, 2016
The film explores the extent to which Olivier Assayas’s characters have always found, and lost, their identities through the aid of their surroundings. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnMay 20, 2016
This is a measured, richly ambiguous work about the subjective process of grief — masquerading as a ghost story — that experiments with the minutiae of film language as only a master of the medium can do. Read full review
80
Total FilmKevin HarleyMar 30, 2017
A genre-blender imbued with style and substance. Magnetic and elusive, Stewart matches her director. Read full review
80
The New YorkerAnthony LaneMar 13, 2017
The over-all effect is as taut with tangible evidence as a detective story. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMar 13, 2017
If you have a penchant for mood pieces that flirt with genre but are too pretentious to deliver the full climactic payload, Personal Shopper is for you. I loved nearly all of it, disposed to forgive Assayas his arty withholding for the pleasure of watching Stewart through his eyes. Read full review
80
TimeStephanie ZacharekMar 9, 2017
Personal Shopper is a strange and beautifully made film, and both star and director are clearly energized by their dual mission. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 20, 2016
The film depends on a performance from Stewart in which she’s virtually never off-screen or less than riveting. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 22, 2017
You can’t stop watching this film, even if you can’t always express in words what you’re seeing. Intuition fills in the gaps. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 23, 2017
It starts out small and reaches its crescendo 90 minutes later with an incredible sequence that generates more suspense from a series of text messages than I would have dreamed possible. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 23, 2017
Personal Shopper is as coolly, beautifully ambiguous as we’ve come to expect from France’s Olivier Assayas, and it contains the kind of mysteries that can leave adventurous audiences tingling pleasurably while others spit out their gummi worms in frustration. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldMar 15, 2017
Are we alone, or is there more than we know? Personal Shopper is less interested in the answer than in, hauntingly, posing the question. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMar 9, 2017
Stewart, who appears in nearly every scene, is intensely watchable, a coiled spring. But the movie is too fragmented and tonally strange to register as more than one of Maureen’s wispy, haunted apparitions. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMar 9, 2017
Stewart makes the scenes of her character’s day-to-day life seem unrehearsed and intimate, as though the movie were peering in on someone whose thoughts were always someplace else. Read full review
75
The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaMay 20, 2016
As per Assayas’ custom, the film is chock-full of fascinating themes and ideas and his indisputable flair as a director makes it compulsively watchable. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 23, 2017
Personal Shopper draws you in, interesting from all angles. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMar 30, 2017
Personal Shopper is wildly imperfect, wandering like Maureen through surroundings matching her dark, curious mood. Dead ends abound with scenes running long then abruptly dropping their subjects. Thrills aren't part of the bargain unless Stewart's intense vulnerability counts. Now more than ever, it should. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonMar 23, 2017
About the only shocking thing about Personal Shopper is its perverse lack of thrills. Read full review
63
New York PostSara StewartMar 8, 2017
Personal Shopper doesn’t have much of a plot, but if you can tune into its languid frequency, it will get under your skin. Read full review
60
EmpireOlly RichardsMar 20, 2017
A Hitchcockian Poltergeist meets Single White Female, it's exactly as confused as that sounds, but just as intriguing. Stewart shows she’s now one of the most interesting actresses of her generation. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 9, 2017
The ghost story gets to be silly, and wants to have it both ways, as ghost stories often do, on the question of whether various signs from beyond the grave are real or imagined.... Yet Ms. Stewart’s portrayal has the ring of truth and the urgency of terror. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 20, 2016
This reunion between Kristen Stewart and the director who gave her one of her best-ever roles in 2014’s “Clouds of Sils Maria” is a broken, but never boring mix of spine-tingling horror story, dreary workplace drama and elliptical identity search, likely to go down as one of the most divisive films of Stewart’s career. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 20, 2016
As Personal Shopper progresses a rather predictable series of twists almost drain the story of interest. Read full review
58
The PlaylistJessica KiangMay 20, 2016
Personal Shopper is a mess — not an uninteresting one, and better that than a staid, unadventurous bore, but a mess nonetheless. Read full review
50
ConsequenceNico LangOct 13, 2016
Personal Shopper might be a failed, if noble, attempt at transcending genre, but you’ll leave psyched to see what its star does next. Read full review
50
Screen DailyLee MarshallMay 20, 2016
Ultimately, all we have to hold on to in a story that lurches inexorably into CGI absurdity is our emotional connection with Stewart’s lost, lonely character. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMay 20, 2016
This aggravatingly empty would-be suspense piece puts all its trust in its star to save the day, but even this compulsively watchable performer can’t elevate such a vapid, undeveloped screenplay. Read full review
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