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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Nov 2021

Stewart never seems to find an emotional reality for the icon she’s playing; the resonance begins and ends with the stunt casting of one…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for The Independent (259) on 04 Nov 2021

Stewart’s febrile, sensitive performance and Larraín’s trademark lyricism give it an emotional kick that such predecessors lacked…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 04 Nov 2021

Pablo Larraín’s film, written by Steven Knight, calls itself a “fable from a true tragedy.” It might also be called a fever dream, a…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 03 Nov 2021

The largely interior cinematography by Claire Mathon is stark, cold and beautiful, backed by a soundtrack that ranges from funereal chamber…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 03 Nov 2021

With the jazzy score by Jonny Greenwood setting the tone for the cacophony of sounds in Diana’s inner world, Spencer is an exquisitely designed,…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 03 Nov 2021

About a third or so of Spencer doesn’t work: flashbacks to Diana’s childhood, hallucinations involving Anne Boleyn, a secret visit to her…

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By Aurora Amidon (74) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 03 Nov 2021

For all its flaws, the film interrogates the limits of a biopic…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 03 Nov 2021

It's possible to admire the performance and still come away feeling director Pablo Larrain's fictionalized movie doesn't significantly add…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 02 Nov 2021

The acting is outstanding all the way around. But Stewart is brilliant…

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By Matthew Anderson (173) for CineVue (2,163) on 02 Nov 2021

Exploring the powerlessness an exasperated Diana (Kristen Stewart) must confront when faced with Windsor tradition, expectation and hypocrisy,…

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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Nov 2021

Showing how the dream of being a rich and beautiful princess curdled into a nightmare might sound like a hard sell, but Spencer pulls it off…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 02 Nov 2021

On paper Stewart seemed like an eccentric casting choice, yet she slinks into the material with grace and ease, and her trademark arsenal of…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 01 Nov 2021

It’s a ghost story but also an underdog’s story, a fighter’s story, a mother’s story and, thanks to an Oscar-ready Stewart at the absolute…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 01 Nov 2021

Though it doesn’t ever make you really feel, Spencer is a bold, compassionate, poetic riposte to standard royal biopics…

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By Hau Chu (19) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Nov 2021

For better and for worse, Spencer conveys one thing quite powerfully: the feeling of living in a rarefied, indifferent world that doesn’t…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Screen Rant (892) on 21 Oct 2021

Heavy-handed and unnecessarily long, Spencer explores Diana as a prisoner of the royal family in heart-wrenching and beautifully haunting fashion…

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By Mary Siroky (10) for Consequence (296) on 07 Oct 2021

Desperately seeking stability while her marriage to Prince Charles crumbles, Diana is tragic and three-dimensional in the hands of Stewart…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for Polygon (677) on 17 Sep 2021

Spencer is an act of psychological horror, a kind of ghost story, and a survivalist picture carried by an uncannily immersive Kristen Stewart,…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 17 Sep 2021

Diana, with her glamorous gowns and her taste for fast food, may be forever too much and not enough, but Spencer is just right…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 17 Sep 2021

Spencer will break your heart, but it will bring it warmth, too…

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