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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40EmpireEmpireThe toxic reaction in Cannes should offer fair warning: Weinstein's glossbuster is a bust.
- 40Time Out LondonDave CalhounTime Out LondonDave CalhounGrace of Monaco could have been a camp delight, but it feels too much like a stodgy, outdated television movie to work even as kitsch.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe real problem here is not the shameless blurring of fact and fiction, but how unforgivably dull it all seems.
- 20CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleThe film isn't just bad - it's awful - ineptly directed (Olivier Dahan), terribly written (Arash Amel) and bafflingly acted by an assortment of miscast faces.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk. The cringe-factor is ionospherically high.
- 20The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinYou can sense what Dahan’s aiming at: by introducing the spectre of Hitch early on, he lays out Grace’s existence as a kind of lived-in Hitchcock thriller... But the acting is so heightened, and the script so thoroughly awful, that Dahan’s idea – his big and seemingly only one – can’t begin to stick.
- 20VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasAmel’s script is agonizingly airless and contrived
- 0The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonRarely competent, unintentionally hilarious and borderline reprehensible in both its politics and its take on gender roles.