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Maps to the Stars

2014

David Cronenberg

Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack ...

6.0

8,933

Drama A contemporary tale exploring the demons of our celebrity-obsessed society. Stafford Weiss is a psychotherapist and life coach who made his fortune with self-help books. His wife is the overbearing mother-manager of their 13-year-old son, a TV star recently out of drug rehab. Their estranged daughter has just been released from a psychiatric hospital and befriended a limo driver who is also an aspiring actor. One of Stafford's celebrity ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A gripping and exquisitely horrible movie about contemporary Hollywood (...) It is twisted, twisty, and very far from all the predictable outsider platitudes about celebrity culture (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Cronenberg's dark comic blast into the dazzle and depravity of Hollyweird. Moore delivers a tour de force of ego unleashed (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"'Maps' is the most overtly comedic screenplay Cronenberg has ever directed, but he hasn’t tailored his lensing or editing style to fit (...) Wasikowska ought to stop playing 18-year-olds already"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[The film] looks sharp but, in the end, comes off like a prank more than a coherent take on 21st century Hollywood, even if there are crumbs of truth and wit scattered throughout it"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"You may find yourself (...) retracing its route from the familiar to the uncanny, from entertainment to revulsion, from dream to nightmare."	POS
United States	Stephanie Merry The Washington Post	"The movie can be over-the-top and the characters are rarely anything more than vile. And yet, the whole thing is mesmerizing"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"If a pointless and nasty Hollywood satire (...) it feels like a sensational soap opera, where obnoxious people do terrible things to one another and it's hard to care (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Oliver Lyttelton IndieWire	"It's certainly the director's most twisted, and as a consequence, most deliciously entertaining film, in quite a long while."	POS

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