I would recommend it, but I don’t think it’ll win Oscars… except for maybe Ben Kingsley

| Apr 24, 2024

Helmed by an otherwise highly inventive director [...] it turned out to be less than the sum of its parts, lacking a developed script and coherent directorial vision, dragging on to its inevitable demise — drowned in a patchwork of trivia.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 13, 2023

An impressive cast, good direction, and eye-catching set design don’t quite make up for a superficial script. Fans of Salvador Dalí’s art will find a few surprises in the film but not a great deal of insight.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 29, 2023

Squabbling scenes between Kingsley and Sukowa make the enterprise worthwhile, but there are too many exchanges that attempt to shoehorn in backstory and context and even more fudges, most notably around Dalí’s sexual proclivities.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2023

The film falls foul of the first law of movie bacchanals: the harder a film-maker insists on the enjoyability of a party, the less enjoyable it seems. But Kingsley mesmerises as the grandiloquent, hollow narcissist at the centre of the swirl...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2023

The great missed opportunity of this film, with its glossy, handsome design and cinematography, and its genteel orchestral score, is how polite and unadventurous it is – something that could never be said of Dalí himself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2023

Dalíland has its moments, but too often, it’s as saggy as a Camembert timepiece.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2023

[Kingsley] consistently highlights the movie’s inadequacies via his own incomparable abilities.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 12, 2023

[Director Mary Harron's] got a cool eye and a steady hand when people are wielding guns and knives. Perhaps surprisingly, there’s none of that in this enjoyable, jumpier biopic of Salvador Dalí, which features most kinds of human excess save weapon-play.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2023

Dalíland serves up disappointingly dull late-period biopic of the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2023

There is a great performance from Sir Ben Kingsley to revel in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2023

[A] run-of-the-mill drama... with a level of unoriginality that would surely have appalled Dalí as much as spinach.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2023

Kingsley is a convincing Dalí, although for large stretches of the film he's not called upon to do much more than stand around looking enigmatic, while Briney's fresh-faced innocent makes for an effective counterpoint to the chaos around him.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2023

Ben Kingsley's performance as Salvador Dalí comes close to being a satirical impersonation. The rest of this drama is underwhelming and makes fascinating real-life people either hollow caricatures or very dull. Too much of Dalíland looks fake.

| Jul 29, 2023

Dalí’s voyeurism reached such extremes it would have made the Marquis de Sade gasp.

| Jul 26, 2023

The central performances are strong.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2023

In a film about the glow of art, Marcel Zyskind’s cinematography blooms suitably. Alex Mackie’s dynamic editing helps make the pacing a co-star. Director Harron understands completely the world to which Dali belonged and the world over which he presided.

| Jul 19, 2023

You won’t learn much about Dali’s work but Kingsley and Sukowa seize the chance to exploit the couple’s flair for theatricality in all its forms.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2023

… reduces a potentially-fascinating story down to its blandest elements, both visually and textually …

| Original Score: 9.5/20 | Jul 11, 2023

Mary Harron’s Daliland struggles to find itself, amid a predictable arsenal of biopic cliches and actor-y impersonations.

| Jul 7, 2023