A brave bid to recreate a modern American tragedy, with a revelatory turn by its lead actress.
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03/13/07
Factory Girl (2007)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:20
Rotten:90
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Despite a dedicated performance by Sienna Miller, Factory Girl delves only superficially into her character, and ultimately fails to tell a coherent story.
Theatrical Release:16-03-2007
Synopsis: Best known for playing muse to Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick was a dazzling young socialite who found herself at the apex of the pop art scene in 1960s New York. In FACTORY GIRL, Sienna Miller is the... [More]
Starring: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon
Director: George Hickenlooper
Reviews for Factory Girl
Top CriticKudos to Miller for her touching portrayal of a doomed icon. A shame the film’s as substantial as one of Warhol’s silver flotations.
03/16/07
Top CriticSienna Miller guarantees herself a bit more than 15 minutes with a strong performance in an otherwise dazed and confused film.
03/16/07
Top CriticIt’s Sienna Miller’s star that shines brightest in this heartbreaking cautionary tale.
03/16/07
Spoilt, rich, posh, vacuous and fame-obsessed - who better to play Edie Sedgwick? If she's acting or not, Miller is brilliant. Just a shame the film is so shallow too.
03/30/07
There's no real need for Factory Girl; just go pick up that copy of Heat.
03/16/07
Sienna Miller brings bright eyes and shapeshifting commitment to a script that doesn't always deserve it.
03/16/07
Miller is a genuine surprise as the damaged star. But the film leaves her very much as it finds her: a clueless naive.
03/16/07
Top CriticSienna Miller is perfectly cast but the script barely scratches the surface and you never really get inside any of the characters.
03/15/07
Edie Sedgwick's story is sad, but never appears important or interesting.
03/16/07
Top CriticA fascinating public figure is reduced to an uninteresting, unlikeable cliche in this stylish but only fitfully entertaining biopic.
02/03/07
In all it's an unconvincing portrait, and as the Dylan clone says, "Empty, like one of those cans of soup..."
03/16/07
Top CriticOne wonders whether the documentary format would have better served the material than this ill-focused drama. Since real-life family and observers chime in over the end credits, perhaps the filmmakers were thinking the same thing.
03/14/07
Top CriticPearce goes beyond the other skilled mimicries we’ve seen on screen from David Bowie, Jared Leto et al to locate the insecurity in Warhol’s pettiness and cruelty.
02/08/07
The film is most interesting in its portrayal of Warhol as a cold-hearted user.
02/22/07
Flashy but depressing film.
02/23/07
Miller is wincingly good at playing up the innocence, with her junior high school declarations ('there's always hope') and the politely vacuous laugh she seems to deliver from her front teeth.
02/02/07
...Guy Pearce is fabulous as Warhol, delivering a complex portrait of the pop artist as a bundle of contradictions.
02/10/07
Miller gets old and used up before our eyes, and we not only see it, we see what it means to experience it. This is a movie about power, and its spectacle is that of a woman losing all of it.
02/09/07
Sienna Miller, with her glossed and dimpled party-girl smile, looks so much like the actual Edie Sedgwick that you may think, at moments, that you're seeing the real thing. That spooky look-alike allure does a lot for the movie.
02/07/07
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