The Queen of Versailles Reviews
The Popcorn Junkie
Strangely entertaining and revealing documentary about a culture obsessed with money and people aspiring to a life they can't afford. Greed is good once again if you can borrow enough money to consume all you desire. Mind the debt gap.
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| Original Score: 4/5
LarsenOnFilm
...their plight plays like the financial crisis in miniature. Or perhaps it's in macro.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
My problem with this riches to rags Americana story is that I felt no sympathy for the featured self-absorbed materialists.
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| Original Score: B-
Laramie Movie Scope
If you've ever wondered how that one percent of the richest lives, this film will show you how one family lives (they are probably back in the 99 percent now), and it ain't pretty.
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| Original Score: B+
EntertainmentTell
Both the quintessential documentary about the Great Recession, and quite possibly the most Schadenfreude-filled movie of all time.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Spirituality and Practice
A documentary about a rich couple riding the waves of wealth and greed and then plunging downwards.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Creative Loafing
A powerhouse documentary, the film shifts from simply being a fly-on-the-wall look at material decadence and moral decay into a study of a family trying to hold itself together during a trying period.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Tampa Bay Times
a repetitive exercise in schadenfreude, and the Siegels don't do much to alter that... The Queen of Versailles leaves viewers with one feeling about the Siegels: Let them eat stale cake.
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| Original Score: B
Contactmusic.com
Documentaries are rarely as hilarious as this one. Well, the first half of it at least
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flick Filosopher
[E]nds up an ever less slightly ungenerous look at the .01 percent than it might have been... But this is still a brutal film from many angles.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
One of the great unsayable truths about the American dream is that it is a bit of a Ponzi scheme ... our system admits a glimmer of hope that anyone, no matter how lowborn, can rise to the top.
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| Original Score: 87/100
This is London
[Siegel] is now suing Greenfield for "misrepresentation". Well, I know whose side I'm on.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sun Online
She epitomises a Western culture struggling to wean itself off debt.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Irish Times
Greenfield's film is bathed in Florida sunshine, adding to the sensation that we're watching Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with a Marxist punchline.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
Never has grotesque wealth looked so unenviable, or its removal been so entertaining, as in this garishly watchable riches-to-rags documentary ...
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| Original Score: 4/5
Financial Times
[Siegel] ultimately emerges as someone who belongs more in The Little House on the Prairie: ever cheerful, and triumphantly unimpeachable.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Telegraph
The temptation to be moralistic must have been overpowering, yet Greenfield finally manages to summon sympathy for people who at first seem vain, selfish and greedy.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Prepare to be shocked, disgusted and compelled.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sky Movies
In the end, these are human beings, not emblems - and it is this that makes this documentary one of the most watchable, for rich and poor alike.
