Shirley
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Elevated by outstanding work from Elisabeth Moss, Shirley pays tribute to its subject's pioneering legacy with a biopic that ignores the commonly accepted boundaries of the form.
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Decker and Gubbins zig just where you might expect them to zag - but for all their departures from fact, they're not bold enough to give the tale quite the kind of vicious twist Jackson herself could be counted on to deliver. July 8, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Decker and Gubbins zig just where you might expect them to zag - but for all their departures from fact, they're not bold enough to give the tale quite the kind of vicious twist Jackson herself could be counted on to deliver.
Jake Wilson
Decker's filmmaking is often dreamlike, but her storytelling has a cruel bite of reality to it-just as Jackson's writing did decades before. June 8, 2020 | Full Review…
Decker's filmmaking is often dreamlike, but her storytelling has a cruel bite of reality to it-just as Jackson's writing did decades before.
David Sims
It's easy to admire the performances without feeling like the journey adds up to much. While Moss captures the complexity of Shirley's personality, the movie sheds scant light on the underlying why of it all. June 8, 2020 | Full Review…
It's easy to admire the performances without feeling like the journey adds up to much. While Moss captures the complexity of Shirley's personality, the movie sheds scant light on the underlying why of it all.
Brian Lowry
The movie feels not a little like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with a literary George and Martha tormenting each other for fun. June 7, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The movie feels not a little like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with a literary George and Martha tormenting each other for fun.
Ty Burr
The deeper the author plunges into the project, the more subjective the movie becomes, revealing the dark visions that descend on Shirley in ghastly, expressive bursts. June 6, 2020 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The deeper the author plunges into the project, the more subjective the movie becomes, revealing the dark visions that descend on Shirley in ghastly, expressive bursts.
Katie Rife
There are few more daring actors around right now than Moss, and "Shirley" may be her best performance yet. She's brutally cutting but the pain of every slight ripples across her face. June 6, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There are few more daring actors around right now than Moss, and "Shirley" may be her best performance yet. She's brutally cutting but the pain of every slight ripples across her face.
Jake Coyle
It has a promising start portraying the biography of the famous writer, as well as a strong central performance by Elisabeth Moss, but unfortunately the narrative becomes as empty as the blank pages of an unpublished manuscript. [Full review in Spanish] August 26, 2020 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
It has a promising start portraying the biography of the famous writer, as well as a strong central performance by Elisabeth Moss, but unfortunately the narrative becomes as empty as the blank pages of an unpublished manuscript. [Full review in Spanish]
Yasser Medina
Half a semi-biopic of a celebrated and controversial author and half a dark psychological thriller about the nature of co-dependence and hero worship. And Moss is amazing. August 7, 2020 | Full Review…
Half a semi-biopic of a celebrated and controversial author and half a dark psychological thriller about the nature of co-dependence and hero worship. And Moss is amazing.
Scott Weinberg
Unfortunately...Shirley manages to remove from Jackson's work nearly everything that was important about it in its reduction of the artist's life and condition to gender... July 31, 2020 | Full Review…
Unfortunately...Shirley manages to remove from Jackson's work nearly everything that was important about it in its reduction of the artist's life and condition to gender...
David Walsh
The greatest horror it reveals is that of the artist's life - a 24/7 obsession that removes Shirley from the world and locks her into a prison of her own construction. July 31, 2020 | Full Review…
The greatest horror it reveals is that of the artist's life - a 24/7 obsession that removes Shirley from the world and locks her into a prison of her own construction.
John McDonald
With its clever point-of-view shots and intimate hand-held camerawork, director Josephine Decker's Shirley is deliberately designed to draw the viewer into this intoxicating and toxic world of deception, manipulation and cutting criticism. July 23, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
With its clever point-of-view shots and intimate hand-held camerawork, director Josephine Decker's Shirley is deliberately designed to draw the viewer into this intoxicating and toxic world of deception, manipulation and cutting criticism.
James Croot
Parts of the film end up dragging and might bore people ... Shirley portrays the uncomfortable reality that insecure people often unnecessarily create chaos in their lives because inner peace is just too banal for them. July 21, 2020 | Full Review…
Parts of the film end up dragging and might bore people ... Shirley portrays the uncomfortable reality that insecure people often unnecessarily create chaos in their lives because inner peace is just too banal for them.
Carla Hay
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