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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 23 May 2018

Viewers may initially find Fanning's American-girl presence jarring, but she holds her own - and her accent…

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By Anna Storm (53) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 23 May 2018

Suffers from that tendency to use characters more as vehicles for ideas than for exploring human character…

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By Michael Gingold (56) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 22 May 2018

The issue with Mary Shelley isn't that the story it tells is untrue, but that it doesn't tell enough of it…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 May 2018

Art is actually as complicated as the lives that inspire it, which is probably why Mary Shelley builds its specious and underwhelming climax…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for TheWrap (3,203) on 22 May 2018

The film undercuts its admiration of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by judging, harshly, her life choices and reducing her timeless masterpiece…

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By Josephine Livingstone (57) for The New Republic (897) on 22 May 2018

Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley is the movie's only real grace. She has been given a poor script to inhabit…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 21 May 2018

Mary Shelley is in essence “Becoming Frankenstein,” the story of how a British teen had the education, talent, life experience and literary…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 20 May 2018

A long way from the finesse-and the feminist vigor-that the director, Haifaa Al-Mansour, displayed in her début feature, Wadjda (2012)…

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By Erika W. Smith (54) for Bust Magazine (182) on 30 Apr 2018

The costumes and cinematography make the movie visually romantic, and hopefully the movie will cause more people to seek out Mary Shelley's work…

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By Ashley Menzel (79) for We Live Entertainment (357) on 29 Apr 2018

It takes far too long to get to the crux of what we all are there for; the creation of Frankenstein…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 27 Apr 2018

There's not much to enjoy about Mary Shelley when the final half hour is preceded by an under-card that doesn't live up to expectations…

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By Caroline Cao (13) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 20 Apr 2018

Mary Shelley fashions a lovely sketch of a bildungsroman with blushes of color, but it is short of the fully rendered and vibrant portrait…

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By Bryan Bishop (118) for The Verge (432) on 20 Sep 2017

Mary Shelley never soars the way the film so clearly wants to, though…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Sep 2017

If we spent a little less time on Mary and Percy, and a bit more watching Mary actually create, the result may have been different…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for indieWire (3,631) on 14 Sep 2017

For a film that chronicles the rise of a creator obsessed with reanimating the dead, Mary Shelley is utterly lifeless…

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By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 13 Sep 2017

Mary Shelley is a film at relentless pains to tell us how poetic and ethereal its heroine is, but without remotely grasping the political and…

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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 13 Sep 2017

Elle Fanning's central performance adds needed weight, but all around her the tone is bizarre and the performances hammy…

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By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Sep 2017

The first hour, which focuses on Mary and Percy's love story starts to sag, but when Mary finds her artistic inspiration, the film takes off…

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By Kyndal Wilson (4) for Black Girl Nerds (256) on 12 Sep 2017

Where Mary Shelley the author succeeds in making the parallels of her life to the monster she created clear, Mary Shelley the movie fails to…

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By Allyson Johnson (161) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 11 Sep 2017

However, beyond the subject, it's the craft involved behind the scenes that makes the film as captivating as it is…

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