Very strange, not wholly successful, but Jude Law is fantastic in it, and I'd always rather watch a filmmaker take a risk..."A Dark Star is Born."

| May 6, 2019

It's episodic by design. Even so, the plot is prone to unnerving lurches, like a baked and boozed Celeste struggling to walk on high heels and spaghetti legs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2019

Beautifully directed by the former actor Brady Corbet...this is a dark and sometimes unnerving dissection of contemporary culture, and the violence and sensuality that drive it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2019

An unflinching cautionary tale on the price of fame.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2019

Corbet's thesis that a world in thrall to spectacle risks conflating hedonism with horror has a strong whiff of the undergraduate about it. In practice, though, his movie is a satisfying experience that consistently resists hysteria.

| May 1, 2019

Vox Lux does what good pop songs do - it shushes your doubts and quickens your pulse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2019

[Vox Lux] is dazzlingly ambitious and phenomenally well acted, if indulgently edited and abruptly concluded.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2019

A dark star is born in this intriguing if weirdly anticlimactic and undeveloped new film from Brady Corbet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2019

Even if it doesn't quite go beyond the bubblegum, Corbet's fusion of A Star Is Born melodramatics with art-house stylings is cold, raw, dark filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2019

But unlike many show-off stylists, [Corbet] rarely becomes monotonous, thanks to his dedication to catching the audience off-guard.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2019

The concert scenes, and there are quite a lot of them, are certainly spectacular, and the performances, Portman's especially, are terrifically powerful.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 15, 2019

Imagine a Wes Anderson movie soaked in pop-star excess and with a heavy dose of gun violence and you get Brady Corbet's Vox Lux, a movie that feels simultaneously precious and pretentious.

| Feb 7, 2019

Interesting to watch, but fall short as full studies of complicated women.

| Feb 5, 2019

Vox Lux is undone by its self- righteousness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2019

If you'll pardon another pop-writing cliché, there are plenty of killer singles here but not a full-length album.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2018

Vox Lux plays like the loveless and cynical flip side to Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 20, 2018

Through it all, Natalie Portman is a gamer, but in the case of this neon nightmare of a film, it was Game Over long before she hit the concert stage.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 14, 2018

While provocation done with a purpose can reveal big truths, I question whether Vox Lux pushes past the shock value. What point is the film grappling to make about this kind of senseless bloodshed and the role of pop music in times of trauma?

| Dec 14, 2018

Ultimately, the indulgent "Vox Lux" comes across like a puzzling leaked demo that hasn't been finessed into a cohesive song.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2018

"Vox Lux" throws a lot at the wall, and while not all of it sticks, it still manages to rattle a nerve and linger long after the credits roll.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 14, 2018