Edie Sedgwick's story is sad, but never appears important or interesting.
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03/16/07
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 CriticThere's no real need for Factory Girl; just go pick up that copy of Heat.
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 CriticA fascinating public figure is reduced to an uninteresting, unlikeable cliche in this stylish but only fitfully entertaining biopic.
02/03/07
One 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 CriticSpoilt, 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
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 CriticSienna Miller brings bright eyes and shapeshifting commitment to a script that doesn't always deserve it.
03/16/07
Sienna Miller is perfectly cast but the script barely scratches the surface and you never really get inside any of the characters.
03/15/07
It’s Sienna Miller’s star that shines brightest in this heartbreaking cautionary tale.
03/16/07
A brave bid to recreate a modern American tragedy, with a revelatory turn by its lead actress.
03/13/07
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 CriticFor a film about Warhol's infamous Factory scene, this Edie Sedgwick biopic is, in some ways, depressingly conventional.
02/02/07
Factory Girl’s greatest crime is transforming a scene and a personality that were all about movement and flamboyant brilliance into nothing but inert ventriloquism.
02/10/07
The two central performances are competent but uninspired -- and annoyingly mannered. Pearce's Warhol is a one-note, irresponsible villain and Miller's Sedgwick is a shallow, pretentious party girl who chain-smokes her way through every scene.
02/08/07
Sienna Miller lights up an otherwise mediocre recounting of the rise and fall of Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick.
02/18/07
Though George Hickenlooper's "Factory Girl" feels as vacuous as the picture's main character, "superstar" Edie Sedgwick, it manages to convincingly convey the toxic persona that was Andy Warhol.
02/10/07
Miller's commitment to the role makes a mockery of the movie's conservative and predictable riches-to-rags story arc and the conventionality of its 'edgy' visual strategy.
02/16/07
The historical Edie Sedgwick was a fascinating figure and at no time was she more interesting than when she was a member of Warhol's Factory. It's too bad Factory Girl fails to make this woman compelling in these circumstances.
02/08/07
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