Maps to the Stars2015
Maps to the Stars (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Narratively unwieldy and tonally jumbled, Maps to the Stars still has enough bite to satisfy David Cronenberg fans in need of a coolly acidic fix.
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as Havana Segrand
as Stafford Weiss
as Jerome Fontana
as Agatha
as Cristina Weiss
as Clarice
as Benjie Weiss
as Genie
as Cammy
as Sterl Carruth
as Starla Gent
as Damien Javitz
as Rhett
as Sam
as Gretchen Voss
as Kayla
as Harriet
as Micah
as Azita Wachtel
as Roy
as Jeb
as Arnold
as Stu
as Hank
as Herself
as Star! Channel Interviewer
as 2nd AD (Blue Matrix)
as PA (Blue Matrix)
as Talkshow Host
as Havana's Housekeeper
as Nurse
as Rusty
as Dispatcher
as Young Intern
as Wife
as Husband
as Bad Babysitter 2 Director
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Critic Reviews for Maps to the Stars
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This isn't a lousy film; it's a mediocre, ugly film about lousy people.
Hollywood has been disemboweling itself since... Sunset Boulevard and The Bad and the Beautiful, but those movies seem like Cream of Wheat compared to Cronenberg's wicked vision.
"Maps to the Stars" loses some steam near the end, and its resolution has the predetermined quality of Greek tragedy writ small. Still, I found it (as the Replacements song says) sadly beautiful.
According to Cronenberg, the script for "Maps to the Stars," by Bruce Wagner, began life more than twenty years ago, and it shows.
Although it's been dismissed in some quarters as minor Cronenberg-and criticized for "getting Hollywood wrong," or something-it's a sneakily powerful movie.
There are scads of scabrous inside-Hollywood psychodramas, but never a festering pyre on the order of David Cronenberg and Bruce Wagner's Maps to the Stars. What a hyperfocused duo of ghouls!
Audience Reviews for Maps to the Stars
A disenchanting look at the ugly side of Hollywood, the vanities and arrogance of the rich and famous. That's confusing at first, engaging in the middle part and down right gross in the end when it all comes down to death, murder, suicide and misery. Moore's performance is outstanding, the rest of the cast is great too, but when every character turns out to be a frikkin lunatic, it's hard to hold on to something. Of course that's exactly what Cronenberg intended.
Super Reviewer
Julianne Moore steals the scene as what seems like an older version of Lindsay Lohan with a Mommie Dearest complex (think of Christina, not Joan) in a cynical story full of horrible characters who are forced to face their ghosts in ways that would leave Freud aroused.
Super Reviewer
Interesting film about horrible people. Was it just me who kept thinking "Justin Bieber" when Benji was in full brat mode? I think I need to watch this again sometime. It's a lot - a lot of characters, a lot of situations. Pretty f'd up, honestly. I think I liked it. Not entirely sure as the people are just so awful. Lol. Original and ambitious movie.
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