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Mary Shelley smooths out its subject's fascinating life and fails to communicate the spark of her classic work, undermining fine period detail and a solid Elle Fanning performance.
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The movie is still well executed but, at two hours, not even Fanning's persuasive performance can elevate it to being more than a moderately interesting historical drama. Jul 12, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The movie is still well executed but, at two hours, not even Fanning's persuasive performance can elevate it to being more than a moderately interesting historical drama.
Bruce DeMara
If it falls short of its ambitions, you have to love that it tries to go for the big story, and that it gives Elle Fanning such a grand role at her tender age. Jul 12, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
If it falls short of its ambitions, you have to love that it tries to go for the big story, and that it gives Elle Fanning such a grand role at her tender age.
Paul Byrnes
Fanning holds the screen as someone intent on writing her own destiny. Jul 6, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Fanning holds the screen as someone intent on writing her own destiny.
Peter Bradshaw
Mary Shelley is an intelligent, probing, well-acted biopic with a strong feminist slant. Jul 5, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Mary Shelley is an intelligent, probing, well-acted biopic with a strong feminist slant.
Geoffrey Macnab
It's a story of super-heroism in disguise from the early 19th century, in a mostly London-set literary milieu that's captured with curious and probing compassion. Jul 5, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's a story of super-heroism in disguise from the early 19th century, in a mostly London-set literary milieu that's captured with curious and probing compassion.
Kevin Maher
Every personage passes before us, conscientiously researched, quacking their literalistic dialogue, while the camera shoots them. Dead, in some cases. Jul 4, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Every personage passes before us, conscientiously researched, quacking their literalistic dialogue, while the camera shoots them. Dead, in some cases.
Nigel Andrews
'Mary Shelley' can be proud for being one of those biographical films at the level of its iconic protagonist. [Full Review in Spanish] Jul 12, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
'Mary Shelley' can be proud for being one of those biographical films at the level of its iconic protagonist. [Full Review in Spanish]
Víctor López G.
Thou art a symbol and sign Jun 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Thou art a symbol and sign
Michael J. Casey
Though the film left me wanting more, the decision to scale back on the horror elements may prove wise to particular audiences who seek to find fascination in a strong literary figure without being subjected to the terror she created. May 4, 2019 | Full Review…
Though the film left me wanting more, the decision to scale back on the horror elements may prove wise to particular audiences who seek to find fascination in a strong literary figure without being subjected to the terror she created.
Peter Gray
Mary Shelley wants for a proper injection of Gothicism - a little less Jane Austen, a little more Ken Russell, if you will. As it stands, the sensational source material fails to scintillate as it should. Jan 8, 2019 | Full Review…
Mary Shelley wants for a proper injection of Gothicism - a little less Jane Austen, a little more Ken Russell, if you will. As it stands, the sensational source material fails to scintillate as it should.
Keva York
Haifaa Al-Mansour, the director of this Mary Shelley bio pic, also knows what it's like to defy convention and put oneself at risk of public censure. Oct 26, 2018 | Full Review…
Haifaa Al-Mansour, the director of this Mary Shelley bio pic, also knows what it's like to defy convention and put oneself at risk of public censure.
John McDonald
This is a CW version of 19th Century Britain, more interested in mediocre aesthetics than in any real exploration of these characters or their age. Sep 10, 2018 | Full Review…
This is a CW version of 19th Century Britain, more interested in mediocre aesthetics than in any real exploration of these characters or their age.
Lauren Humphries-Brooks
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