When you’re doing fourth-rate Guy Ritchie ripoffs you need to have stopped three rates ago.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 25, 2024

Duchess isn’t perfect, yet it’s likely the exact film Marshall and Kirk intended it to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2024

Even if Marshall handles the action proficiently, he never convinces us to care who's getting their throat gouged open next.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2024

The wrong actress in the lead role saps the strength of this movie.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 16, 2024

Duchess is a slog of an action flick that is so fundamentally flaccid in all respects that it’s not even “so bad it’s good”, it’s just a chore to watch.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 13, 2024

Duchess plays out like Guy Ritchie remade Pretty Woman, but Neil Marshall and Charlotte Kirk's revenge flick fails to capture the charm of either.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

None of it mattered, and for all the slit throats, close calls, electric shocks, and broken bones, Marshall’s latest fires too many blanks to be of any consequence.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 13, 2024

“Atrocious” might have been a better title.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 12, 2024

The sub-sub-Scarface bursts of bullet-ridden action just about keep this thing from grinding to a halt, but it’s leering, cruddy and retrograde to the bitter end.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 12, 2024

A thinly-plotted game of Dolly Dress Up, and endless yammering about whether or not Duchess has ‘balls’, or needs ‘balls’, or can kick men in the balls, doesn’t create the gloss of feminism which the film apparently believes it does.

| Aug 11, 2024

A terrible gender-bending rip-off of the British gangster movies of Guy Ritchie.

| Original Score: D | Aug 11, 2024

Duchess is a flat and forgettable riff on Guy Ritchie classics that doesn't have an ounce of the wit, charm, or glorious mayhem.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 10, 2024

Marshall is, first and foremost, an action director, and the various fight scenes in the film are well distributed so that we never have to wait too long before it gets back on track.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

Duchess dulls the senses with repetitive shoot-outs, along with a screenplay written by Marshall and Kirk that is not entirely sure if it wants things to be fun or serious.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 9, 2024

... strings together genre cliches with little regard for depth or narrative coherence, and thus no real reason to care.

| Aug 9, 2024

Going into Duchess, all that most audience members will expect is a dumb, fun action flick. Sadly, Neil Marshall isn’t even able to deliver that.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 7, 2024

Clunky, junky and devoid of any nutritional value, director/co-screenwriter Neil Marshall's inept crime thriller wants to meld a Guy Ritchie caper with a Jackie Collins novel, and it winds failing at both.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 7, 2024

Duchess doesn’t have everything one needs as far as a brilliant feature goes, but if one is asking for a solid cast, some fun banter, and the occasional action scene that balances fun and tension well, I appreciated what Marshall was able to deliver.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 7, 2024

No matter how often the characters talk about how formidable Scarlett is, nothing about Duchess is remotely convincing.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 6, 2024

Marshall has nothing much to offer, relying on cliché and shots of a half-naked Kirk to make it through the lifeless feature.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 6, 2024