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Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Slant MagazineMatt BrennanSlant MagazineMatt BrennanIt spins the narrative of one of the Victorian art world's most mysterious marriages into a study of life lived and life merely examined, a fecund fairy tale in reverse.
- 60Time Out LondonCath ClarkeTime Out LondonCath ClarkeIt’s a thoughtful, well-acted and perceptive drama. However, for a film about a love triangle the sparks don’t exactly fly.
- Richard Laxton’s painterly film combines the gothic shadows of Hitchcock’s Rebecca with the gut-wrenching romance of A Royal Affair. The result is dark and offbeat, but as a murky anti-romance, Gray is undeniably effective.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt’s a little hammy and soapy, with an occasional Pythonesque sense of its own importance but this film, directed by Richard Laxton, is performed with gusto.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreWhatever “it” is, that spark that film actresses and actors have that makes them interesting and empathetic and anything else on the screen, Fanning doesn’t have it.
- 40EmpireAngie ErrigoEmpireAngie ErrigoHandsome, well-mounted but dull, dull, dull.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonEffie Gray is an exquisitely dreary slice of middlebrow armchair theater which adds little new to a much-filmed story.
- 40Time OutDavid EhrlichTime OutDavid EhrlichSo while the film clearly wants to be an affirmation of female agency, it plays instead like nothing more than the story of a girl who marries an ogre and waits to be freed by true love’s kiss.