Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Amid all the shifting mirrored surfaces and hazy ambiguities of Olivier Assayas's bewitching, brazenly unconventional ghost story, this much can be said with certainty: Kristen Stewart has become one hell of an actress.
– Guy Lodge,
Time Out,
17 May 2016
rotten:
Personal Shopper descends into fragmentation and alienation, and not always rewardingly. It also doesn't help that Stewart's fidgety, mechanical performance indulges some of her worst acting tics.
– Bilge Ebiri,
Village Voice,
18 May 2016
fresh:
Assayas serves up a couple of genuinely frightening effects set pieces.
– Mike D'Angelo,
AV Club,
19 May 2016
fresh:
Personal Shopper is far from a bad film. It switches unpredictably from character drama to horror and back, exploring both mourning and what it's like to dress someone who's too busy to handle it herself.
– Alison Willmore,
BuzzFeed News,
20 May 2016
rotten:
Whatever Stewart's shortcomings, writer/director Assayas is the guy who has to stand up and take a bow for this bomb.