Maps to the Stars

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Maps to the Stars

R

2015

1h 52m

Comedy

Drama

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Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood dynasty have lives as dramatic as any movie.

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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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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

06/18/2016

So here's a mean, nasty little piece of work - and I have a feeling director David Cronenberg would take that as the compliment it's intended to be.

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

03/05/2015

2.0

This isn't a lousy film; it's a mediocre, ugly film about lousy people.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

03/05/2015

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.

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Joe Lipsett

Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network

03/27/2025

2.5/5

A half-baked Hollywood satire that mostly doesn't work aside from an MVP turn by a wonderfully awful Julianne Moore.

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Bianca Garner

Filmotomy

10/10/2024

Moore manages to capture this lost, lonely, and damaged individual without every being too heavy-handed in her approach.

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Bill Bria

Vague Visages

06/15/2023

The vapid and self-obsessed showbiz characters of Maps to the Stars go beyond the usual Hollywood satire, as Cronenberg chronicles the various ways their self-delusions and ambitions create an ever larger abyss of lies...

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Stefiam

Apr 6

A brutal representation of what Hollywood life could be with really excellent performances all around,

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Beks C

@beks22 Mar 8

I watched this film for Robert Pattinson, and he was great as a limo driver who aspires to be a screenwriter. The movie overall is not my usual cup of tea, but I was deeply impressed with the performances of the entire cast. It is a well-written, gripping film.

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Richard B

@RichardB12314 Feb 23

The movie grows on you after watching. The title, the need for power and control, and the damage that control does, torpedoing any success gained, including the laugh out loud criticism of independent movie incest cliches is both sordid, funny, and somehow serious at the same time.

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Unique C.

@uniquecliches Dec 22

A dystopian portrayal of Hollywood, with great performances. The main idea of the script is intriguing and may be the sole takeaway from the viewing experience. However, the overall movie is so disjointed and unpleasant. The characters lack any likability, and one cannot really care about their fate or their stories.

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T J.

@objects Dec 3

Brilliant, never boring and never nice.

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thiago s

@Thiagostone Dec 2

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

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Synopsis

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood dynasty have lives as dramatic as any movie.

Director: David Cronenberg
Producer: Michel Merkt, Martin Katz, Saïd Ben Saïd
Screenwriter: Bruce Wagner
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: SBS Productions, Integral Film, Starmaps Productions, Prospero Pictures
Rating: R (Language|Graphic Nudity|Sexual Content|Some Drug Material|Strong Disturbing Violence)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 27, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 9, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $347.6K
Runtime: 1h 52m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital