Priscilla Reviews
Jacob Elordi convincingly plays Elvis as a melancholy, temperamental narcissist plagued with self-doubt.
| Jan 9, 2025
The movie never skews from Priscilla’s perspective at any given point, loyally upholding the authorship of her life story.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2024
There was a void, endless and dark, in the comfort of Priscilla's existence. As well as love, disturbingly abusive yet enduring. And Sofia Coppola nailed all that queasy glamour and somnambulic psychosexual malaise to a tee.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2024
A tender, poignant drama and an excellent continuation of her muted but no less intoxicating style. It shows Coppola at her most understanding as she presents a complex, multi-faceted love story where two lovers drift apart.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 25, 2024
Graceland has long since been shrouded in a gauzy, almost impenetrable mythology, making it difficult to access the people who resided within it. Sofia Coppola manages to pierce through and let the darkness inside seep out.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 3, 2024
This flaw is what ultimately prevents her from telling Priscilla Presley's story more effectively...
| Jun 10, 2024
In Sofia Coppola’s Cinema of Girlhood, Priscilla is a horror movie.
| May 29, 2024
From Lost in Translation to Marie Antoinette to Somewhere, Coppola keeps returning to lonely young women who see beauty in the world that others miss. In Priscilla, she has found her perfect subject.
| May 21, 2024
Spaeny, convincingly playing a 14-year-old dressed up to look 24, and respectfully adored by cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd, is so magnetic in every scene of Priscilla that even Jacob Elordi’s Elvis almost dissolves when she’s onscreen beside her.
| Original Score: B+ | Apr 29, 2024
Coppola’s anti-fairytale was doused in perfume and pink wallpaper to zoom in on a woman at the heart of manipulation, gaslighting, grooming, and possessive love. But it works, a great companion piece to Coppola’s filmography...
| Apr 17, 2024
It’s an exquisitely calibrated piece of filmmaking, at once dreamy, melancholy and threaded with quiet power.
| Apr 10, 2024
A bubble-bursting biopic [...] that melts the myth of Elvis.
| Mar 17, 2024
Priscilla is an engaging and moody memoir-biopic... And true to Coppola’s signature form, it’s an engrossing watch with a score and soundtrack that remains evocative because it doesn’t feature the “King”’s music.
| Feb 29, 2024
This time we get Priscilla's point of view.
| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 18, 2024
The bulk of the film is devoted to the confusions and uncertainties of an immature girl who meets the world’s most famous pop star when she is only fourteen, and finds herself the object of a strange, chaste courtship.
| Feb 18, 2024
It occurs to me that this supposedly romantic story sometimes feels like a horror story. [Full review in Spanish]
| Feb 14, 2024
The filmmaker seems to have been born to tell the story of a woman trapped between glamor and loneliness; this story fits like a glove in all her filmography's obsessions... [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 14, 2024
The life of Priscilla Presley as told by Sofia Coppola is a journey of liberation and empowerment, a portrait that focuses on the part of the story that was never properly told. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2024
The film does more to damn Elvis the man by denying the audience any glimpse of Elvis the icon.
| Feb 13, 2024
Despite a brilliant performance from its two leads Priscilla is still slightly disappointing. The screenplay leaves the audience asking more questions than are answered.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2024