These clothes are the boldest element of a movie that otherwise wears its supposed punk-rock influences like a kid discovering Hot Topic for the first time.

| Jun 18, 2021

This movie is worth watching for how it looks and sounds and for Emma Thompson...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2021

Cruella is doing enough to be seductively fun and entertaining, at least for the first 90 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2021

The movie is fun, stylish, and over the top (in mostly a good way), but it struggles to prove that it's more than a muddled cash grab.

| Jun 4, 2021

Cruella is often fun to watch, but its cavalier reversal of its core character cheapens the very idea of a corrective narrative. It takes a quintessential villain and nuances her character into oblivion.

| Jun 3, 2021

This becomes repetitive and one-note after you get past how deliciously wicked everyone is.

| Jun 3, 2021

Very funny, and when we consider how easy it would've been to completely drop the ball, the fact that it's fun is seriously underrated...Thompson just sets the screen on fire.

| Jun 2, 2021

Although this film is not for me and struggles to hit 2/5, the 10-year-old I saw it with was so tickled by it and explicitly instructed me to note in this review that they give it a 4/5. So in the spirit of democracy, a 3/5 it is

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2021

The Met Gala should be so lucky.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 1, 2021

Cruella is not as perfect as the seams Estella stitches, but there's something ever so charming about its strut.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 1, 2021

Stone's performance slips into high gear, reaching an entertainingly manic level. There's a crazed glint in her eye that is more than a match for Thompson's basilisk stare, and Gillespie's design department backs her up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2021

That Cruella is an atrocity with neither purpose nor soul shouldn't come as a surprise.

| May 31, 2021

Stone is a joy: vampy, sneering and as eager to please as a dalmatian.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2021

There's not much of One Hundred and One Dalmatians author Dodie Smith's source material or its classic 1961 animated adaptation to be found inside Disney's Cruella, and I'm perfectly okay with that.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2021

A film doesn't need pretty costumes to be enjoyable, but it does need good storytelling-which is the missing ingredient in Cruella.

| May 30, 2021

When it counts, Craig Gillespie's blockbuster proves delicious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2021

"From the very beginning I've always made a statement," Cruella announces at the outset in voice-over. Very true, and the movie that bears her name makes statements of its own - a lot of them. It just can't decide which ones matter

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 29, 2021

It's just unfortunate that the muscular legacy of Cruella should, for now, end like this. Without a hint of cruelty at all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2021

Beavan's costumes are dazzling throughout, including Cruella's glittering red dress at the Baroness's gala. But when the costumes overwhelm the characters and story, there's something hollow at the film's centre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2021

At two-plus hours, "Cruella" could use a few trims. But as a mood board, it's a smashing success.

| Original Score: B+ | May 29, 2021