Fanning does an admirable job as the author, but I think that she had more to give than what was demanded. When an actor was on her level and gave her something to work with, she got interesting.

| Jun 12, 2024

Renowned Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour gives Mary Shelley's artistic journey to writing Frankenstein the teen dream treatment, it's beautiful, driven by passion and pain and love that doesn't heal.

| Oct 12, 2021

Mary Shelley is a polished costume drama but one that is less about the person who wrote Frankenstein and the range of her experiences than about the the whole patriarchal structure of English society...

| Oct 12, 2021

As the first female film director in Saudi Arabia, Al-Mansour boldly presents the woman's perspective in film, stirring controversy and stimulating social change to raise the status of women.

| Oct 12, 2021

Elle Fanning's performance illuminates this story of passion, imagination, and fierce independence.

| Oct 12, 2021

It's here that Al Mansour fully embraces the gothic vibes you've no doubt been waiting for, with languorous zooms, macabre oil paintings, nightmares in the night and a storm raging outside...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2021

Everything the characters despised was smugly, triumphantly and safely back in power, at least for the time being. Ignoring this, the filmmakers' attitude owes too much to ahistorical moralizing.

| Aug 7, 2020

'Mary Shelley' is an effective period drama, with a very good central performance from Fanning, backed up by a well-cast support. It tells a story that we all should know about with an interesting visual style.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 2, 2020

The movie, which gradually slows to a crawl, could have used a little galvanism itself.

| Apr 9, 2020

Mary Shelley has the look of a prestige drama, but lacks the tight script and strong performances necessary to elevate it to award season status.

| Mar 30, 2020

In the light of the #MeToo movement, Shelley's travails are both timeless and topical in a way that rarely aligns. A series of baffling decisions and a weak script unfortunately contribute to undermining her tale and sucking the life from it.

| Feb 13, 2020

'Mary Shelley' can be proud for being one of those biographical films at the level of its iconic protagonist. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 13, 2019

Thou art a symbol and sign

| Jun 17, 2019

Though the film left me wanting more, the decision to scale back on the horror elements may prove wise to particular audiences who seek to find fascination in a strong literary figure without being subjected to the terror she created.

| May 4, 2019

Mary Shelley wants for a proper injection of Gothicism - a little less Jane Austen, a little more Ken Russell, if you will. As it stands, the sensational source material fails to scintillate as it should.

| Jan 8, 2019

Haifaa Al-Mansour, the director of this Mary Shelley bio pic, also knows what it's like to defy convention and put oneself at risk of public censure.

| Oct 27, 2018

This is a CW version of 19th Century Britain, more interested in mediocre aesthetics than in any real exploration of these characters or their age.

| Sep 10, 2018

It's unfortunate that such a fascinating life should be confined to a film of such limited scope.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2018

Plays out rather as a soapy 온라인카지노추천 drama might, with many of the historical details fudged and some of the more scintillating nuggets transpiring in a series of unsatisfactory reveals.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

A fine performance by Elle Fanning in the title role goes a long way to compensate, more than rescuing Mary from the fate of being a footnote in the Shelley-Byron bromance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018