Grace Kelly’s post-Hollywood life may not have been the fairy tale some thought it to be, but you wouldn’t know it from director Olivie...
The Atlantic May 25, 2014 Uninspiring from its first frame to its last, Grace of Monaco is a piece of hagiographic fluff that cobbles together tropes from other recent...
The film traces Kelly’s path from being a fairy tale bride to being a put-upon wife who gleefully defers her dreams to maintain her ingr...
The film is dragged down by the writers' decision to focus on an incident in Monaco’s history that will bore many viewers and turn a few...
There are moments when all this veers towards the so-bad-it’s-good direction, but it never quite gets there.
Too earnest for its terminal chintziness, this Princess Problem Picture establishes that Grace Kelly’s real life was no fairytale, but has li...
TIME Magazine May 14, 2014 Often silly but never vivacious, Grace of Monaco fails as either a stately drama of the BBC provenance or an entertainingly trashy tell-all.
This bubble-headed biopic exudes awfulness through its every perfumed and pampered pore.
Kidman does her best to dignify the role, but it’s all victimhood and tears.
Kidman’s flawless face is filmed in such extreme close-up during this climax that the camera appears to be attempting full penetration, first...
It is almost perversely impressive how Dahan misses almost every target and squanders almost every opportunity.
Kidman seemed a natural choice to play Kelly. She manages to soar in several scenes. Hampered by the subpar material, she seems utterly lost...
For all its seeming superficiality, this is a film of considerable formal sophistication.
Not so much a turkey as a dodo, Grace of Monaco never takes flight and extinction is probably the best course for it.
A clunkingly unconvincing melodrama which, were it not for its A-list star … would be indistinguishable from the cheesiest and most patronising of...
The Guardian June 8, 2014 This cack-handed snapshot of "Grace Kelly’s greatest role" is destined to become another epithet-coining catastrophe, the benchmark by which...
If you lock up your brain and throw away the key, the film is bearable.
The Guardian May 14, 2014 Like a 104-minute Chanel ad, only without the subtlety and depth.
