Cruella
Emma Stone is a young Cruella de Vil in this live-action prequel to the 1961 Disney classic, One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Features Emma Thompson as the Baroness.
A young fashion designer in '70s London who's infatuated with dog skins - particularly Dalmatians' - slowly but surely turns into the renowned villain we now know as Cruella de Vil.
Less2021Rating: PG, Mild themes, violence and sense of threat134 minsUSA
ComedyCrimeBlockbuster
- Director:
- Craig Gillespie ('I, Tonya', 'Fright Night', 'Million Dollar Arm')
- Writer:
- Aline Brosh McKennaJez ButterworthDana FoxKelly MarcelTony McNamaraSteve Zissis
- Cast:
- Emma StoneEmma ThompsonPaul Walter HauserJoel FryEmily BeechamKirby Howell-BaptisteMark StrongJamie Demetriou
Cruella | Reviews
74%397 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Variety
A deliciously dark, unexpectedly empowering origin story that's just the right amount of campy.
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Slant Magazine
The film's outward liveliness can't mask the inner inertia it has as just another lifeless product assembled in a factory.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Everything that’s good about Cruella can’t obscure the fact that it was a very bad idea.
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Hollywood Reporter
What Cruella lacks in script... it makes up for in sheer visual punch...
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Film School Rejects
It doesn’t really succeed on the prequel front, but Cruella still stands on its own as an energetic, entertaining, and atypical comedy.
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Vanity Fair
It's probably too violent for little kids, too kiddie for older ones, and little more than a loud chore for parents.
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Los Angeles Times
Cruella isn’t a bad movie, even if its heroine is nowhere near bad enough.
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Seattle Times
Cruella feels like a wildly imaginative superhero movie, but with fashion instead of superpowers.
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Entertainment Weekly
A collection of pin-drop lines and killer GIFs pressed haphazardly into movie form.
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Daily Telegraph
The fun of Cruella lies mostly in watching its eccentric world whirr and clatter away, and the film only shows signs of strain when the time comes to push the plot over a hump.
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Empire Magazine
What could have been a mere IP cash-in instead becomes an unexpectedly cinematic crime-and-couture romp...
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The Washington Post
Achieves the dubious feat of being tedious, transgressive, chaotic and inert at the same time.
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A.V. Club
The “too much is just enough” attitude that makes it visually pleasurable also makes (Cruella) a slog in the storytelling department.
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We Got This Covered
One of Disney's best live-action retreads of their animated classics yet.
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Little White Lies
With all its careful polish and on-the-nose musical choices, it’s about as punk as doing your tax assessment.
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Time Out
Cruella ends up feeling like a film torn between being daring and sticking to convention: a helium balloon that keeps getting dragged back under the weight of its own narrative ballast.
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Bloody Disgusting
While the narrative fails to make a case for itself, Cruella succeeds at style and spectacle.
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Financial Times
The script makes sturdy bones for the costumes, scene-stealing of course...
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South China Morning Post
Stone’s transition from wide-eyed innocent to the beastly Cruella is fun, but it’s Emma Thompson who steals the show as the icy Baroness...
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The New York Times
When I say it has something for everyone I’m not being sarcastic, though I’m also not being entirely complimentary.
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