Rotten
This isn't a lousy film; it's a mediocre, ugly film about lousy people.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
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Maps to the Stars
Overview
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family chase celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Their fragile ecosystem is disrupted by the arrival of Agatha, the scarred and estranged pyromaniac daughter.
Director and cast
- David Cronenberg Director
- Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand
- Mia Wasikowska as Agatha Weiss
- Robert Pattinson as Jerome Fontana
- John Cusack as Dr. Stafford Weiss
- Evan Bird as Benjie Weiss
- Olivia Williams as Cristina Weiss
- Sarah Gadon as Clarice Taggart
- Kiara Glasco as Cammy
- Dawn Greenhalgh as Genie
- Jonathan Watton as Sterl Carruth
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
62%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Hollywood has been disemboweling itself since... Sunset Boulevard and The Bad and the Beautiful, but those movies seem like Cream of Wheat compared to Cronenberg's wicked vision.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
"Maps to the Stars" loses some steam near the end, and its resolution has the predetermined quality of Greek tragedy writ small. Still, I found it (as the Replacements song says) sadly beautiful.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
According to Cronenberg, the script for "Maps to the Stars," by Bruce Wagner, began life more than twenty years ago, and it shows.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
There are scads of scabrous inside-Hollywood psychodramas, but never a festering pyre on the order of David Cronenberg and Bruce Wagner's Maps to the Stars. What a hyperfocused duo of ghouls!
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
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