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Movie ID: 765
RT slug: spencer_2021
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spencer_2021
Release year: 2021
Runtime: 116 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2021-11-05
Festival premiere date: 2021-09-03
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 83%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Biography, Drama
Directors: Pablo Larrain
Writers: Steven Knight
Producers: Jonas Dornbach, Juan de Dios Larrain, Pablo Larrain, Paul Webster
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-15 17:18:36
Updated: 2026-06-15 17:18:36
During a Christmas holiday with the royal family at Sandringham, Princess Diana confronts the unraveling of her marriage and imagines a different future.
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Canonical reviews: 365
Canonical fresh: 303
Canonical rotten: 62
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 83%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-15 16:40:59
Snapshot Tomatometer: 83%
Snapshot review count: 365
Snapshot fresh count: 303
Snapshot rotten count: 62
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1325 (full_snapshot)
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| 2 | Sally Hawkins | Maggie |
| 3 | Timothy Spall | Major Alistair Gregory |
| 4 | Sean Harris | Darren |
| 5 | Jack Farthing | Prince Charles |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
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| 173637 | John Bleasdale | Sight & Sound | Fresh | — | 2026-05-13T21:57:07Z | 2026-05-13 21:57:07 | Kristen Stewart’s fragile portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, is the crowning achievement of Pablo Larraín’s chilling and restrained biopic. |
| 173638 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Fresh | 3/4 | 2026-05-05T16:39:23Z | 2026-05-05 16:39:23 | Spencer gets up close and personal with its subject, both in director Pablo Larrain's shooting style and in scripter Steven Knight's attempts to analyze and understand the mindset of Diana, Princess of Wales. |
| 173639 | Francesca Steele | iNews.co.uk | Fresh | 5/5 | 2024-12-10T23:36:35Z | 2024-12-10 23:36:35 | Pablo Larraín's film portrays a frenzied, haunted woman disintegrating before our eyes - it is a mesmerising triumph. |
| 173640 | Christina Newland | iNews.co.uk | Rotten | 3/5 | 2024-09-23T20:47:36Z | 2024-09-23 20:47:36 | If this is a ‘fable from a true tragedy’, the way Larrain harnesses that tragedy ends up being just another way to define Diana as a victim. |
| 173641 | Denise Pieniazek | Puesta en Escena (AR) | Fresh | 9/10 | 2024-08-18T23:50:57Z | 2024-08-18 23:50:57 | The protagonist is Diana Spencer like her life, this story does not represent a traditional biopic. The proposal of this “fable of a real tragedy” is to unmask that idyllically called “fairy tale” whose paradigm changed from Diana's experience... |
| 173642 | Calum Cooper | In Their Own League | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-07-15T20:44:17Z | 2024-07-15 20:44:17 | Stewart’s performance is a staggering one that does so much more than merely replicate the looks and mannerisms of her historical icon. |
| 173643 | Yasmine Kandil | Discussing Film | Fresh | 5/5 | 2024-07-15T15:33:07Z | 2024-07-15 15:33:07 | Spencer is a spectacular, rare kind of biopic that portrays its main subject as more fully-fledged than ever before. |
| 173644 | Sarah Vincent | Sarah G Vincent Views | Fresh | — | 2024-06-10T01:53:44Z | 2024-06-10 01:53:44 | It is like Ridley Scott’s most recent films in which we get to congratulate ourselves for having a single advantage over those who have it better than us in numerous ways, but more textured for the way that it explores mental health |
| 173645 | Amy Smith | InSession Film | Fresh | — | 2024-03-01T20:42:55Z | 2024-03-01 20:42:55 | Containing one of my favorite scenes of the entire year with the ‘soldier game’ and a masterclass in numerous aspects of filmmaking, including score and cinematography, this is one I will continue to go back to time and time again. |
| 173646 | Marya E. Gates | Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) | Fresh | — | 2024-02-13T00:02:49Z | 2024-02-13 00:02:49 | Pablo Larraín takes an outsider's view of an iconic public figure and gracefully shatters any illusion of what the public thinks of them. |
| 173647 | Jackson Weaver | CBC News | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2023-10-16T19:08:20Z | 2023-10-16 19:08:20 | Kristen Stewart disappears into her role as Diana, Princess of Wales, during a tense Christmas weekend in the early 1990s. Don't expect fireworks or theatrics — or much in the way of closure — but instead a subtle and effective character study. |
| 173648 | Ryan Oquiza | Sinegang | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-08-18T05:15:33Z | 2023-08-18 05:15:33 | Heartened by a career-defining turn by Kristen Stewart, Spencer shows the ephemerality of grandeur, the rigidity of aristocracy, and the enduring humanity of Diana. |
| 173649 | Serena Seghedoni | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-08-08T16:28:24Z | 2023-08-08 16:28:24 | a thoroughly impressive, unforgettable character study that will surprise you and break your heart with the universality of its themes, and that you’ll find yourself revisiting time and time again. |
| 173650 | Zach Pope | Zach Pope Reviews | Fresh | — | 2023-07-26T19:34:23Z | 2023-07-26 19:34:23 | Kristen Stewart’s CAREER DEFINING PERFORMANCE! Haunting, claustrophobic, intimate, personal, tragic, & all around one of the most unique experiences I’ve seen all year |
| 173651 | Jillian Chilingerian | Offscreen With Jillian | Fresh | — | 2023-07-26T17:21:34Z | 2023-07-26 17:21:34 | This recent addition to the Dianassance is a refresh and should be used as a map for future biopics. |
| 173652 | Paul Kanieski | KSQD Community Radio | Rotten | — | 2023-07-25T23:50:49Z | 2023-07-25 23:50:49 | Princess Di, it’s overstated, was like a beautiful bird trapped in a gilded cage – a pheasant, to be exact. Pheasants are shown adorning the tapestry above her bed, hunted for sport, and escaping shotgun blasts only to end up roadkill (!!!). |
| 173653 | Emma-Jane Betts | The Digital Fix | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-07-25T17:40:11Z | 2023-07-25 17:40:11 | Larrain exceeds expectations, as he experiments with surreal narrative elements and ultimately gives us a striking Diana story that we’ve never seen before. |
| 173654 | Tina Kakadelis | Beyond the Cinerama Dome | Fresh | — | 2023-07-25T02:37:53Z | 2023-07-25 02:37:53 | Spencer is a horror movie with a twist. This film has the audience root for all of the aspects of horror movies they’re usually yelling at the characters to ignore. |
| 173655 | Noah Berlatsky | Everything is Horrible (Substack) | Fresh | — | 2023-05-07T21:39:58Z | 2023-05-07 21:39:58 | Spencer is about generalizing queerness and about showing how LGBT people are not the only ones in closets. But it’s also careful not to push actual LGBT people back into that windowless room while appropriating their experiences. |
| 173656 | M.N. Miller | Ready Steady Cut | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-10-21T19:45:30Z | 2022-10-21 19:45:30 | Spencer reaches levels of haunting piquancy and has a performance from Kristen Stewart the encompasses mind, body, and soul. |
| 173657 | Asia Frey | Lagniappe (Mobile, AL) | Fresh | — | 2022-09-02T19:58:53Z | 2022-09-02 19:58:53 | This unusual film might not be to everyone’s taste, but it was anything but dull. |
| 173658 | Cris Kennedy | The Canberra Times (Australia) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-08-10T20:39:01Z | 2022-08-10 20:39:01 | This is the most mature of Stewart's performances to date. |
| 173659 | Jeffrey Overstreet | JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) | Fresh | B+ | 2022-06-30T01:30:34Z | 2022-06-30 01:30:34 | The film’s intriguing tone, which involves metaphors so heavy-handed that [the writer] couldn’t possibly expect us to take them seriously, feels less like a biopic and more like a campy psychological horror movie. ... And Stewart plays it perfectly. |
| 173660 | Erick Estrada | Cinegarage | Rotten | — | 2022-06-27T22:52:31Z | 2022-06-27 22:52:31 | Stemming from a weak and disinteresting narrative, the voiceless director plays in the "think whatever you want" safe zone and banks too much in the ambiguity of his stories. Luckily, Kristen Stewart makes [it] bearable... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173661 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2022-06-25T06:09:19Z | 2022-06-25 06:09:19 | An equally bold and sensitive — and enthralling — portrait of England's rose wilting not from the sunlight she craves, but from the royal inferno. |
| 173662 | Nestor Bentancor | Nestor Cine Desde Hollywood | Fresh | — | 2022-06-23T06:27:14Z | 2022-06-23 06:27:14 | An exquisite and haunting portrait of a fairy tale gone wrong. |
| 173663 | Carlos Boyero | El Pais (Spain) | Fresh | — | 2022-06-22T23:27:11Z | 2022-06-22 23:27:11 | Without being exceptional, [Spencer] maintains a credible fateful tone that stirs uneasiness, and it's difficult to lose interest in that lost person and her unnerving desolation. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173664 | Marcelo Stiletano | La Nación (Argentina) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-05-18T18:37:21Z | 2022-05-18 18:37:21 | A fable narrated from a true story perspective. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173665 | Alfonso Flores-Durón y Martínez | En Filme | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-05-13T20:44:22Z | 2022-05-13 20:44:22 | The dreamlinke sequences, childhood flashbacks or hallucinations, is what makes this film transcend. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173666 | Dan Bayer | Next Best Picture | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-05-10T16:36:33Z | 2022-05-10 16:36:33 | Thrilling to watch, both within the dramatic context of the film and in the meta-cinematic context of watching an actress ascend to a higher plane of performance. |
| 173667 | Agustín Acevedo Kanopa | La Diaria | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-04-14T14:11:29Z | 2022-04-14 14:11:29 | Stewart's personification is more authentic than what a legion of imitators of Lady Di could have provided, according to the same principle by which a painting by Emil Nolde, more than faithfully reproducing a sunset, speaks about the truth of the light. |
| 173668 | Jimmy Cage | Jimmy Cage Movie Reviews (YouTube) | Fresh | 9/10 | 2022-04-08T11:52:36Z | 2022-04-08 11:52:36 | SPENCER is a beautiful, tragic and almost horror-like portrait of Princess Diana, which in its focused fiction creates something true and which becomes truly mesmerizing through Kristen Stewarts fantastic performance in the lead. |
| 173669 | John McDonald | Australian Financial Review | Rotten | — | 2022-03-29T22:17:15Z | 2022-03-29 22:17:15 | Although the story is bizarre and unconvincing, theres a fascination in never quite knowing where its going next. |
| 173670 | PJ Nabarro | Patrick Nabarro | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-03-26T23:13:31Z | 2022-03-26 23:13:31 | Larraín again offers an impression of a famous public figure at a time of significant trauma, and is ingeniously able to project over the admittedly fascinating political tale an even more moving existential one. |
| 173671 | David Reddish | Queerty | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-03-13T20:51:58Z | 2022-03-13 20:51:58 | Viewer reaction to Spencer will vary in the extremeanyone looking for the empathy or activism that made Diana so beloved and important wont find them here. |
| 173672 | Rubén Rosario | MiamiArtZine | Rotten | — | 2022-03-10T23:37:56Z | 2022-03-10 23:37:56 | To make matters even stranger, Larraín and Knight add an element of magic realism that's even more are odds with their dissonant melding of creative forces... |
| 173673 | Josie Meléndez | Full Circle Cinema | Fresh | 8/10 | 2022-03-07T22:04:12Z | 2022-03-07 22:04:12 | Despite the dark moments the film ventures through, the ending is uplifting, similar to the likes of a long exhale. This unconventional Christmas movie will soon become a go-to for many fans of the royal familys history. |
| 173674 | Mark Goodyear | Battle Royale With Cheese | Fresh | — | 2022-03-06T09:02:33Z | 2022-03-06 09:02:33 | Spencer is a moving depiction of one of the worlds most beloved figures brought to life by the ever-talented Pablo Larran and career-best work from Kristen Stewart. |
| 173675 | Victoria Luxford | City AM | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-03-03T15:02:46Z | 2022-03-03 15:02:46 | An artistic meditation on the mental prison Diana found herself in, as well as a reminder that she briefly managed to break free. |
| 173676 | Ruth Maramis | FlixChatter Film Blog | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2022-02-21T22:06:49Z | 2022-02-21 22:06:49 | SPENCER beguiles and frustrates in equal measure, but Kristen Stewarts performance is definitely the highlight. Like Diana, she's got a mesmerizing quality and charisma that makes the film watchable even during the most tedious moments. |
| 173677 | Carson Timar | ButteredPopcorn | Fresh | A | 2022-02-15T20:13:53Z | 2022-02-15 20:13:53 | This is an emotionally devastating capturing of pain and suffering that works both as a focused biopic and larger message. |
| 173678 | David Gonzalez | The Cinematic Reel | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-02-12T18:19:38Z | 2022-02-12 18:19:38 | Spencer ultimately is not just a tragedy of a trapped princess but a downright satirical examination of the monarchy; one that is dependent on propping up an illusion of perfection to the masses. |
| 173679 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-02-12T05:23:49Z | 2022-02-12 05:23:49 | Like Scrooge in the Dickens story, Stewart's Diana spends the film ruminating on her past, hindered by her present, and dreading the future. |
| 173680 | Jeff Nelson | Showbiz Cheat Sheet | Rotten | — | 2022-02-12T03:19:43Z | 2022-02-12 03:19:43 | Spencer is worth seeing based on Stewart's impeccable performance and the movie's gorgeous sense of style. However, the movie is a bit lacking regarding its nuance and depth. |
| 173681 | John Lui | The Straits Times (Singapore) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-02-11T01:44:07Z | 2022-02-11 01:44:07 | Kristen Stewart [plays] Diana as a woman of contradictory impulses -- she is fragile one moment, defiant the next. It is a mix of tones the actress pulls off with confidence even as she nails the late princess' mannerisms and speech patterns. |
| 173682 | Mark Johnson | Awards Daily | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-02-11T00:42:40Z | 2022-02-11 00:42:40 | Spencer is a fever dream of a film, yielding a somber vision of the turmoil that Diana went through as a mother and a woman trapped under the strain of her obligations to the Royal Family. It will sit with you for days after seeing it. |
| 173683 | Marriska Fernandes | Exclaim! | Fresh | 9/10 | 2022-02-10T02:23:47Z | 2022-02-10 02:23:47 | Spencer is a beautiful yet haunting portrayal of the late Princess Diana. Stewart does an incredible job embodying Diana. Not only does she nail the accent and physical presence, but also eloquently captures a woman who suffered from bulimia. |
| 173684 | Cole Smithey | ColeSmithey.com | Rotten | D | 2022-02-09T16:43:06Z | 2022-02-09 16:43:06 | It's abysmal to see the gifted likes of Timothy Spall and Sally Hawkins taking one for the team; so don't. Eat your pearls. |
| 173685 | John Beifuss | Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-02-03T22:01:56Z | 2022-02-03 22:01:56 | Kristen Stewart is a nerve-racked Diana, Princess of Wales, who endures a torturous Christmas weekend with her scornful royal in-laws while in a state of glam delirium. Something wicked this way comes? No, it's just the queen, trailed by her corgis. |
| 173686 | CJ Johnson | Film Mafia | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-01-25T08:40:07Z | 2022-01-25 08:40:07 | Stunning to look at and, with Jonny Greenwood's score, dreamy, evocative and haunting. At times it feels like a horror movie, a Polanski-like mental descent. Don't come for any kind of history lesson; come for the vibe. |
| 173687 | Matthew Toomey | ABC Radio Brisbane | Fresh | A- | 2022-01-23T01:31:30Z | 2022-01-23 01:31:30 | Covering a curious mix of genres, Spencer adds up to something weird, fun and interesting. |
| 173688 | Harris Dang | Impulse Gamer | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-01-22T04:32:58Z | 2022-01-22 04:32:58 | Spencer is led by strong direction by Pablo Larrain and an amazing performance from Kristen Stewart. It is an effective psychological drama that effectively immerses the audience with its grand bouts of dramatic excess. Highly recommended. |
| 173689 | Graeme Tuckett | The Post NZ | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-01-21T01:23:52Z | 2022-01-21 01:23:52 | Larrain is an astonishing filmmaker - and he lays out Steven Knight's (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) mischievous script in economically assembled scenes. |
| 173690 | Dominic Corry | New Zealand Herald | Fresh | — | 2022-01-20T21:24:56Z | 2022-01-20 21:24:56 | Starring as Princess Diana in this uniquely unsettling film, Kristen Stewart delivers a performance that places her front and centre of the Oscar race. |
| 173691 | Luke Goodsell | ABC News (Australia) | Fresh | — | 2022-01-20T18:42:47Z | 2022-01-20 18:42:47 | If nothing else, it's an extremely moving portrait of motherhood and survival in a ghastly, antiquated world -- one that questions those who would pledge themselves to crown or country. |
| 173692 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Rotten | 3/5 | 2022-01-19T23:20:31Z | 2022-01-19 23:20:31 | In a breathless, headlong way, Stewart does a credible job, but she’s perched on the edge of hysteria throughout and the upbeat ending fails to alter the impression that she and Larraín have delivered a one-dimensional portrait of a victim. |
| 173693 | Lisa Nesselson | France24 | Fresh | — | 2022-01-19T22:48:49Z | 2022-01-19 22:48:49 | Stewart captures the essence of being in an oppressive environment. |
| 173694 | Peter Gray | The AU Review | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-01-19T22:10:59Z | 2022-01-19 22:10:59 | Even in [Pablo] Larraín's unconventional choice to interpret Diana's life rather than re-enact it, [Kristen] Stewart's performance never wavers from evoking the truth. |
| 173695 | Jim Schembri | jimschembri.com | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-01-19T05:00:12Z | 2022-01-19 05:00:12 | Kristen Stewart is not only a dead ringer for Di, she has captured all of her ticks, speech patterns and mannerisms, right down to the signature head tilt. It's a pretty remarkable performance. As for the film itself, well, it's a bit of a slog. |
| 173696 | A.S. Hamrah | The Baffler | Rotten | — | 2022-01-18T20:10:54Z | 2022-01-18 20:10:54 | In this world of high-toned entertainment, you can flee from the Windsors like Diana Spencer did, and you should. |
| 173697 | Brenda Medel | Cine Premiere | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-01-18T19:40:37Z | 2022-01-18 19:40:37 | A performance that is as natural as it is powerfully melancholic. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173698 | Andrew Kendall | Stabroek News | Rotten | — | 2022-01-13T03:20:17Z | 2022-01-13 03:20:17 | Spencer looks pristine and is shot like a thriller, finding horror in the hallowed halls of royalty but what does it tell us about anything in those halls? Very little. |
| 173699 | Don Shanahan | Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast | Rotten | — | 2022-01-10T20:20:29Z | 2022-01-10 20:20:29 | We are unconvinced by Kristen Stewart's imitation. |
| 173700 | Samuel R. Murrian | Parade Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-01-04T02:20:43Z | 2022-01-04 02:20:43 | Pablo Larraín's masterful Spencer is one of the most assured, idiosyncratic and wholly satisfying biopics in memory. |
| 173701 | Rosa Parra | Latinx Lens | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-01-02T04:20:07Z | 2022-01-02 04:20:07 | A visually gorgeous and haunting portrayal of Diana that's filled with metaphors. Fundamentally it's a story about love (and the lack thereof). |
| 173702 | Kiko Martinez | San Antonio Current | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2021-12-30T23:10:50Z | 2021-12-30 23:10:50 | Filmmaker Pablo Larraín creates an atmosphere of dignity and discontent. |
| 173703 | Rene Sanchez | Cine Sin Fronteras | Fresh | 4/4 | 2021-12-30T22:30:37Z | 2021-12-30 22:30:37 | Kristen Stewart delivers a career-best performance in this dark and haunting fairy tale turned nightmare. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 173704 | Georgie Carr | Another Gaze | Fresh | — | 2021-12-29T23:20:27Z | 2021-12-29 23:20:27 | Simultaneously wary and celebratory of biographical limitation, Larraín tweaks the conventions of the genre, ironising idealist conceptions of history through scenes that explore how intensity of feeling can appear like depth of action. |
| 173705 | Sarah McMullan | The Post NZ | Fresh | — | 2021-12-29T20:00:34Z | 2021-12-29 20:00:34 | It's a film I didn't expect to be impressed by; instead, It has haunted me with its portrayal of a woman increasingly isolated by her emotional and mental distress. |
| 173706 | Akhil Arora | Gadgets360 | Fresh | — | 2021-12-29T04:50:14Z | 2021-12-29 04:50:14 | Spencer director Pablo Larraín lasers in on Diana's (Kristen Stewart) horrid time at the Sandringham estate during the 1991 Christmas, delivering a haunting portrait that's more psychological horror than drama at times. |
| 173707 | Jason Bailey | Crooked Marquee | Fresh | — | 2021-12-28T05:40:16Z | 2021-12-28 05:40:16 | Stewart was an unlikely but, it's now clear, ingenious choice for the role; she's going through such a period of pronounced anguish that the wrong kind of actor would have played the whole thing as overwrought, and ruined it. |
| 173708 | Grace Lavery | Bitch Media | Fresh | — | 2021-12-23T20:00:43Z | 2021-12-23 20:00:43 | By exhuming Dynasty Di from her saintly casket, Larraín and Stewart have done the world a great favor. |
| 173709 | Orla Smith | Seventh Row | Rotten | — | 2021-12-20T21:50:37Z | 2021-12-20 21:50:37 | Pablo Larraín's impressionistic portrait of Princess Diana takes big swings that rarely hit. |
| 173710 | Chuck Wilson | L.A. Weekly | Fresh | — | 2021-12-20T21:20:37Z | 2021-12-20 21:20:37 | As in Diana's life, no doubt, the film's grace notes come when she's talking one-on-one with William and Harry or with a servant. |
| 173711 | David G. Hughes | electric ghost | Rotten | — | 2021-12-20T21:20:34Z | 2021-12-20 21:20:34 | It's easy to cheer the assertion of autonomy that is the film's chief moral. But it's too easy. And for that reason the movie is cheap, cashing in on maudlin, binary, and oftentimes outright ridiculous sentiments. |
| 173712 | Dan Buffa | KSDK News (St. Louis) | Fresh | B+ | 2021-12-20T17:40:30Z | 2021-12-20 17:40:30 | It's a career-defining moment for Stewart. More than merely mimicking a voice or a walk, you can see it in her face and every mannerism. |
| 173713 | Sarah Marrs | Lainey Gossip | Fresh | — | 2021-12-19T03:30:14Z | 2021-12-19 03:30:14 | Spencer is a portrait of a lady in distress, a biopic less interested in historicity than it is hysteria. |
| 173714 | Matt Pais | MattPais.com | Fresh | A- | 2021-12-16T15:30:26Z | 2021-12-16 15:30:26 | A devastating portrait of the way things have always been done clashing with the urgency of reality, of a person against a system. |
| 173715 | Matthew Passantino | Big Picture Big Sound | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2021-12-15T02:10:24Z | 2021-12-15 02:10:24 | To call "Spencer" a biopic would be to misunderstand the term because the movie is more of an interpretation of Diana, not her life story. |
| 173716 | Milana Vujkov | Lola On Film | Fresh | 5/5 | 2021-12-12T18:50:16Z | 2021-12-12 18:50:16 | Poetic, mysterious and subversively cathartic (...) unequivocally makes clear to all watching why Diana mattered so much, to so many. It has something to do with love. |
| 173717 | Kayleigh Donaldson | Pajiba | Fresh | — | 2021-12-09T01:20:24Z | 2021-12-09 01:20:24 | You don't need simple answers when you're presented with this kind of mood piece, one more intrigued with feeling than a Wikipedia-esque list of facts. |
| 173718 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 4/10 | 2021-12-08T00:50:58Z | 2021-12-08 00:50:58 | A hit job on Princess Diana, full of scenes that have to be imaginary. |
| 173719 | Raquel Stecher | Quelle Movies | Fresh | — | 2021-12-06T01:10:04Z | 2021-12-06 01:10:04 | Kristen Stewart shines in Pablo Larraín's latest drama Spencer.... It's a tough watch especially for those of us who hold the memory of Princess Diana close to our hearts. |
| 173720 | Nandini Ramnath | Scroll.in | Rotten | — | 2021-12-04T02:00:53Z | 2021-12-04 02:00:53 | Although Stewart nails her character's tremulousness, the actor is as restricted by Larrain's melodramatic vision as the character is by monarchy. Stewart delivers her lines in a hoarse voice, as though she is in the middle of a prolonged strangulation. |
| 173721 | Eleanor Ringel Cater | Saporta Report (Atlanta) | Rotten | — | 2021-12-04T01:10:46Z | 2021-12-04 01:10:46 | Kristen Stewart, an actor I genuinely admire, struggles mightily with the role, and ends up somewhere in between an interesting impersonation and a 5th-grader's notion of a madwoman. |
| 173722 | Lisa Trifone | Third Coast Review | Fresh | 4/4 | 2021-12-04T00:00:52Z | 2021-12-04 00:00:52 | Unlike other overly polished portraits of the Princess of Wales, Spencer aims to humanize Diana in ways that aren't always entirely flattering. |
| 173723 | Ruben Peralta Rigaud | Cocalecas | Fresh | — | 2021-12-03T19:20:41Z | 2021-12-03 19:20:41 | Visually captivating, with Kristen Stewart at the apogee of her career. [Full |
| 173724 | Jared Mobarak | Jaredmobarak.com | Fresh | 8/10 | 2021-12-03T15:10:24Z | 2021-12-03 15:10:24 | The filmmaking is superb and Stewart delivers a heartbreaking performance to complement the visuals' fractured psyche of hallucinatory suffering. |
| 173725 | Yasser Medina | Cinefilia | Fresh | 7/10 | 2021-12-03T08:20:12Z | 2021-12-03 08:20:12 | It's unsettling, claustrophobic, intimate, endowed with a certain lavishness in the sets and wardrobe, but, above all, illuminated at all times by a brilliant performance from Kristen Stewart. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173726 | Fausto Fernandez | Fotogramas | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-03T00:30:39Z | 2021-12-03 00:30:39 | A disturbing exercise in style about loneliness and social cannibalism. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173727 | Mikel Zorrilla | Espinof | Fresh | — | 2021-12-02T23:00:41Z | 2021-12-02 23:00:41 | Stewart offers here an Oscar-worthy performance, while Larraín once again confirms his talent for tackling this type of story. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173728 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Fresh | C+ | 2021-12-01T22:20:33Z | 2021-12-01 22:20:33 | Kristin Stewart, Timothy Spall and Sallie Hawkins all turn in fine performances in this well-acted film. The sets and costumes also have the quality one expects. Jacqueline Durran's costume designs are among this awards season favorites. |
| 173729 | Kate Sánchez | But Why Tho? | Fresh | 9/10 | 2021-12-01T07:30:08Z | 2021-12-01 07:30:08 | Spencerdoesn't captivate, it haunts. |
| 173730 | Marianna Neal | Impression Blend | Fresh | 8/10 | 2021-11-30T05:00:10Z | 2021-11-30 05:00:10 | There are films that you would normally consider character studies in general, and then there are films like Spencer in which the character and the performance are the film. |
| 173731 | Andrea Thompson | A Reel of One's Own | Rotten | C- | 2021-11-29T22:10:28Z | 2021-11-29 22:10:28 | Rather than celebrate her and her life, Larraín can only seem to memorialize her as a fragile victim, filling his film with constant references to death, as if anyone could forget the horrific circumstances of Diana's end. |
| 173732 | CJ Sheu | Review Film Review | Rotten | — | 2021-11-28T04:00:07Z | 2021-11-28 04:00:07 | Everything in the film is done well, and for explicable reasons. But justifications do not a masterpiece make. |
| 173733 | Mary Ann Brussat | Spirituality & Practice | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2021-11-28T01:00:11Z | 2021-11-28 01:00:11 | n imagined weekend during which Princess Diana tries to escape the prison of life as a royal. |
| 173734 | Jeffrey Zhang | Strange Harbors | Fresh | A- | 2021-11-25T04:10:24Z | 2021-11-25 04:10:24 | Powered by a singular, searing performance by Kristen Stewart, Spencer aims not for imitation or adherence to history, but persuasive evocation. |
| 173735 | Sebastian Zavala Kahn | Cinencuentro | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-24T23:01:00Z | 2021-11-24 23:01:00 | An interesting exercise in claustrophobia, tension and even horror, starring an amazing Kristen Stewart. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 173736 | Louisa Moore | Screen Zealots | Fresh | — | 2021-11-24T22:10:40Z | 2021-11-24 22:10:40 | At times frustratingly abstract, Spencer is not grand in scope, but in its concept and storytelling. It also features one of the very best lead performances of the year. |
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