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42 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeBinoche leaves audiences with the same exhilarating feeling here — of having witnessed something precious and rare — answering the challenge of Assayas’ script by revealing a character incredibly closer to her soul.
- 90The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasClouds Of Sils Maria is a great midlife crisis film, in other words, and, like Irma Vep, it’s also a great meta-commentary on contemporary moviemaking, with Assayas making keen observations about modern celebrity, screen-devouring blockbusters, Internet gossip culture, and the next generation of actresses, represented here by Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz.
- 88Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneThe pleasure in watching the film becomes a linguistic one as Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart masterfully sharpen their words and hurl them at each other like projectiles out of a blowpipe.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIf Assayas's film finally falls just shy of being great art itself, it is at least handsomely staged and played with conviction.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThis is a complex, bewitching and melancholy drama, another fearlessly intelligent film from Assayas.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyBinoche and Stewart seem so natural and life-like that it would be tempting to suggest that they are playing characters very close to themselves. But this would also be denigrating and condescending, as if to suggest that they’re not really acting at all.
- 60CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleBoth actresses are excellent, with Binoche given more to do and she flips between attempting to get into the skin of her character and back to her normal self. Stewart, on the other hand, has an easy naturalism as she moves from devotion to rebellion without ever being able to fully express herself.
- 50The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangAt best a handful of transitory pleasures, Sils Maria threads through the peaks and valleys of weighty, interesting topics, but makes no lasting impression on them.