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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 05 Sep 2012

Greenfield's film is bathed in Florida sunshine, adding to the sensation that we're watching Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with a Marxist…

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By Steve Rose (110) for Guardian (4,584) on 05 Sep 2012

Never has grotesque wealth looked so unenviable, or its removal been so entertaining, as in this garishly watchable riches-to-rags documentary…

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By Antonia Quirke (220) for Financial Times (1,822) on 05 Sep 2012

[Siegel] ultimately emerges as someone who belongs more in The Little House on the Prairie: ever cheerful, and triumphantly unimpeachable…

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By David Gritten (155) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 05 Sep 2012

The temptation to be moralistic must have been overpowering, yet Greenfield finally manages to summon sympathy for people who at first seem…

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By Andy Tweddle (4) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 05 Sep 2012

Prepare to be shocked, disgusted and compelled…

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By Francesca Steele (73) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 04 Sep 2012

In the end, these are human beings, not emblems - and it is this that makes this documentary one of the most watchable, for rich and poor alike…

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By Philip Wilding (43) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 02 Sep 2012

A bizarre and mesmerising journey to the heart of Cloud Cuckoo Land…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 30 Aug 2012

It is a comedy that aspires to tragedy, and a metaphor for a nation collapsing beneath the incompatible, intolerable pressures of excess and inequity…

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By Chris Foran (51) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 29 Aug 2012

For all their garishness, the Siegels are pretty likable, even if attempts to make you sympathetic to their plight fall short…

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By Neil Smith (699) for Total Film (3,532) on 26 Aug 2012

It's perfectly possible to like the title character of Lauren Greenfield's documentary – Jackie Siegel – while detesting everything she…

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By Dan Lybarger (786) for KC Active (97) on 25 Aug 2012

It scores a lot of laughs at the Siegel's bad taste and odd ways of adapting to their newfound misfortune…

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By Erick Weber (123) for NECN (109) on 23 Aug 2012

If you get some kind of sick kick watching the mighty take a fall, The Queen of Versailles will be nothing short of a schadenfreudic ball…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 22 Aug 2012

Seriously, if this was the American Dream, couldn't we have come up with something better…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 21 Aug 2012

It contains some useful information, I suppose, but I did not like these people, I hope never to meet them, and I wonder if the world wouldn't…

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By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 20 Aug 2012

Watching Jackie fill cart after Walmart cart with crap the family doesn't need is to witness the new millennium's version of Marie Antoinette…

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By Clint O'connor (453) for Cleveland Plain Dealer (828) on 17 Aug 2012

Can we feel sorry for super-filthy-rich rich people? Maybe not. But we can be fascinated by their insane spending…

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By Mark Pfeiffer (406) for Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (402) on 16 Aug 2012

Although director Lauren Greenfield documents several instances in which it's apparent that the Siegels' lifestyle is so alien from the vast…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for PopMatters (2,617) on 15 Aug 2012

Greenfield and her crew achieved extraordinary access to the Siegel's lives, and one of the film's pleasures is simply getting to visit a world…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 15 Aug 2012

Although it's a guilty pleasure, The Queen of Versailles is artful enough that both the prosecution and the defense could invoke it when the…

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By Paul Gallagher (60) for The List (2,018) on 15 Aug 2012

At times the film feels aimless and inconclusive, but Greenfield's open-minded and observational approach yields compelling details from every scene…

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