Grace of Monaco 2014

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Often silly but never vivacious, Grace of Monaco fails as either a stately drama of the BBC provenance or an entertainingly trashy tell-all. Read more

Scott Foundas, Variety: 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 Olivier Dahan's cornball melodrama. Read more

Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter: It is almost perversely impressive how Dahan misses almost every target and squanders almost every opportunity. Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: Kidman seemed a natural choice to play Kelly. She manages to soar in several scenes. Hampered by the subpar material, she seems utterly lost, unable to master what could have been the role of her career. Read more

Jon Frosch, The Atlantic: Uninspiring from its first frame to its last, Grace of Monaco is a piece of hagiographic fluff that cobbles together tropes from other recent biopics of famous women. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Little is left to our imagination or intelligence as characters spout facts and exposition and we're treated to a parade of familiar historical figures in distracting smaller roles. Read more