Maps to the Stars (2015) Movie Critic Review

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Maps to the Stars (2015) Movie Critic Review
Rating:     Rated R for strong disturbing violence and sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some drug material
Production:     Integral Film
Genre:     Drama
Countries:     USA, Germany, France, Canada
Language:     English  
Director:    David Cronenberg
Stars:    Chris Ploszczansky, Carrie Fisher, Dawn Greenhalgh, Amanda Brugel

Maps to the Stars (2015) Movie Critic Review - Maps to the Stars Movie Directed by David Cronenberg. Under Production: Integral Film. In Cinema Feb 27, 2015 with Stars: Chris Ploszczansky, Carrie Fisher, Dawn Greenhalgh, Amanda Brugel

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The Telegraph | Robbie Collin
Many film-industry neuroses exposed and horrors nested within horrors, that one viewing is too much, and not nearly enough. Cronenberg has made a film that you want to unsee – and then see and unsee again.
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HitFix | Drew McWeeny
Julianne Moore seems to be the one person in the film that truly gets the tone right, playing Havana like a person walking a tightrope over a yawning pit of psychosis, her every emotion bubbling up and threatening to knock her off.
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Variety | Peter Debruge
Maps struggles to mix its various genres: Part showbiz sendup, part ghost story, part dysfunctional-family drama, the movie instead comes across as so much jaded mumbo-jumbo.
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Time Out London | Dave Calhoun
What stops David Cronenberg’s grotesque noir Maps to the Stars, written by LA insider Bruce Wagner, from feeling tired is that it’s deliciously odd.
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The Hollywood Reporter | Todd McCarthy
Cronenberg assumes a distinctly clinical approach to the emotional, social and business shenanigans on display here, a perspective that has brilliantly served some of his overtly psychological, horror and sci-fi pieces but gives this one a brittle and airless feel.
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Film.com | Jordan Hoffman
Cronenberg’s map doesn’t lead to a satisfying destination in a typical story sense, but it is a remarkable quest. For a movie that has so many problems, it is one of the more watchable ones.
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The Guardian | Peter Bradshaw
The status-anxiety, fame-vertigo, sexual satiety and that all-encompassing fear of failure which poisons every triumph are displayed here with an icy new connoisseurship, a kind of extremism which faces down the traditional objection that films like this are secretly infatuated with their subject.
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indieWIRE | Eric Kohn
While not the director's canniest piece of filmmaking, it's unquestionably his angriest, politically motivated achievement. Every missive hits its target hard with a comedy-horror combo aimed squarely at the kind of commercial stupidity that Cronenberg has avoided throughout his 45-year career.
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Slant Magazine | Budd Wilkins
The creepiest haunted Hollywood movie since "Mulholland Drive," David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars is working an even deeper graveyard groove than David Lynch did.
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