Chastain is as brittle and fragile a Miss Julie as ever there was.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2016

Liv Ullmann's adaptation of August Strindberg's play might best be billed as a midsummer night's sex tragedy. It is on the overwrought side.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2015

All talents are ill-served by the unambitious handling of the material.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2015

Polished, but lacking in scandalous tragedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2015

The adaptation is Ullmann's own, and it has been done with purpose and intelligence.

| Sep 3, 2015

The film remains mostly boxed up in the kitchen, and the upstairs-downstairs tension, in both senses, dissipates.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2015

It occasionally looks too theatrical and the scene with Julie's canary might remind you of Oscar Wilde's lines about Little Nell. Yet there is passion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2015

The film is visually bland, with only a couple of bookending outdoor sequences around a handful of interior sets.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2015

It smoulders and smokes and generates some heat but it never really bursts into flame.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2015

Anyone interested in spellbinding performances, however, should see Miss Julie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 12, 2015

Morton, one of the least artificial actresses in the world, charts her character's heartbreak without any of the self-pity normally assigned to ordinary women.

| Original Score: B | Dec 31, 2014

What Ullmann's done is create the ideal conditions for these three to do electrifying work with each other. She maintains control so they can lose it.

| Dec 11, 2014

The problem is that as played by Chastain and Farrell (or perhaps as directed by Ullmann), the sexual tension comes off as intellectualized, not actual.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 5, 2014

"Miss Julie" is a rather strange experience, with its consistently static medium shots of the three actors, as they roar their lines at one another. But it has an undeniable power.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 5, 2014

The heat that should saturate the film as betrayals mount and boundaries are broken flickers and dies many times over "Miss Julie's" languid two-plus hours.

| Dec 4, 2014

It's a handsomely mounted, intentionally claustrophobic film; too claustrophobic over the long haul, with relentless close-ups that constrict the galvanic emotions on display.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2014

"Miss Julie" is a strangely clinical movie experience. It's a story that makes an impression without leaving a mark.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 4, 2014

An austere, pared-down take that does one thing extremely well: It allows actors Jessica Chastain, Samantha Morton and especially Colin Farrell to shine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2014

"Their subordinate ranks as a woman and a lowborn servant, respectively, should inspire sympathy, but their self pity is so thorough and one-note that their distress is no more compelling or resonant than a pair of dogs noisily licking their wounds."

| Original Score: 30/100 | Dec 4, 2014

Ullmann's way is the wrong way to do "Miss Julie," but this is the best version of this wrong way you're ever likely to find.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 4, 2014