Savage Grace
1,511
Drama
Julianne Moore stars in this dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...
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United States | Chicago Tribune | "'Savage Grace' comes up bland and seems to go nowhere in particular." | NEU |
United States | Chicago Reader | Julianne Moore proves game for anything in this pitch-black true-crime reconstruction." | POS |
United States | USA Today | "'Savage Grace' is a thoroughly disturbing story, told in a detached style rendering the overall experience an unsettling blend of lurid and vacuous." | NEU |
United States | AV Club | "'Savage Grace' should have the force of Greek tragedy, but Kalin's chamber drama feels curiously stifling and flat, and Moore's volatile turn isn't enough to quicken its pulse." | NEU |
Canada | The Globe and Mail | "The film walks the fine line between exploitation and empathy to cast a chilly, memorable spell" | POS |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "Living these lives, for these people, must have been sad and tedious, and so, inevitably, is their story, and it must be said, the film about it." | NEU |
United States | Vulture | "Howard A. Rodman's script has a lot of juice, and the rhythms are so pregnant that the air vibrates with something, even if you're not sure what. " | POS |
United States | Entertainment Weekly | "The director, Tom Kalin, stages acid duels, but he should have provided more psychological structure. Though Moore, a great actress, turns fury into verbal music, we're never quite sure what's driving her" | POS |
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