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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 18 Jul 2012

Slickly made if not particularly stylish, the movie maintains its entertainment value for picking ideal models of American excess…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 17 Jul 2012

These are not horrible people, just ones who flung themselves enthusiastically toward the American dream as so many do…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 17 Jul 2012

Documentarian Lauren Greenfield caught lightning in a bottle with this one…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 17 Jul 2012

With every shopping spree, every limo ride to McDonald's, Mrs. Siegel underlines the cliche that money cannot buy you taste. Or class…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 16 Jul 2012

Director Lauren Greenfield has a catty eye, but she's not after simple schadenfreude as the Siegels' time-share hotels are foreclosed, the…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Jul 2012

I've seen The Queen of Versailles twice, and both times the audience laughed frequently at the Siegel family's sheer tackiness…

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By Budd Wilkins (46) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jul 2012

Lauren Greenfield's film evolves from an ode to entitled obliviousness to a more evenhanded character study, tracing the fault lines that develop…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 14 Jul 2012

A stunning look at what happens to a rich person who gets greedy…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 13 Jul 2012

Through a focused chronicle of one marriage, the director conveys both the seductive and ugly aspects of unbridled ambition and American capitalism…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 13 Jul 2012

[VIDEO ESSAY] There's quiet satisfaction is watching the financial collapse of the Florida billionaire self-professedly personally responsible…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Jul 2012

The Queen of Versailles will prompt loathing not only among the so-called 99 Percent, but among those in the top 1 percent who would like someone…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Jul 2012

To an extent, Greenfield tries to have it both ways with her film: she allows us to enjoy the fantasy of being rich, while also letting us…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 10 Jul 2012

A succulently entertaining movie that invites you to splash around in the dreams and follies of folks so rich they're the 1 percent of the…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Jul 2012

This timely and involving documentary elicits both sympathy and schadenfreude, as Greenfield regards her all-too-vilifiable subjects with a…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 07 Jul 2012

For Greenfield, the Siegels are a brilliant metaphor for everything farkakte about the U.S. economy and the culture that shaped it…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Jun 2012

Porn without penetration is sometimes how this doc impacts in its candid, unapologetic look at a once white-bread couple who vault to billionaire…

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By Allison Loring (21) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 19 Jun 2012

This honesty and heart is what makes The Queen of Versailles so compelling…

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By Dan Fienberg (310) for HitFix (861) on 15 Jun 2012

Turns the Real Housewives formula upside down and it becomes possibly the least tragic epic tragedy ever constructed…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 26 Apr 2012

A fascinating and sobering documentary that tracks the unexpected impact of the financial crisis on one of America's richest families…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Movies.com (1,002) on 07 Mar 2012

An outrageous, despicable, guiltily hilarious and appropriately superficial good time…

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