Spencer
Kristen Stewart is Princess Diana in this slice-of-history biopic from the director of Jackie and the writer of Locke. Co-stars Jack Farthing (The Riot Club) as Prince Charles alongside two-time BAFTA nominees Sally Hawkins and Timothy Spall.
December, 1991: The Prince and Princess of Wales’ marriage has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. This year, things will be a whole lot different.
Less2021Rating: M, Mature themes and coarse language116 minsChile, Germany, UKFabula
DramaTrue Story & BiographyHistorical
Spencer | Reviews
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Hollywood Reporter
Not everything lands in Spencer... But it tells a sorrowful story we all think we know in a new and genuinely disturbing light...
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The Times
(An) infuriating mixed bag, one that veers wildly from moments of dreamy intrigue to risible scenes of camp.
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Little White Lies
(The script) is often witless and banal... either overstuffed with “meaning”, or just deathly dull.
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BBC
A folly that wobbles between the bold and the bad, the disturbingly gothic and the just plain silly.
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Time Magazine
Larraín turns this Diana into exactly the thing the royal family accused the real-life Diana of being, a willful and pouty constant complainer.
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IndieWire
(Spencer) plays as sort of a haunted house chamber piece that doesn’t try to locate the real woman behind the legend.
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San Francisco Chronicle
It takes one of the most promising screen actresses of her generation and casts her out to sea with nothing to hold onto but a hideous script... without depth or understanding.
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USA Today
An enlightening glimpse into the mind of Princess Diana that doubles as an effective horror film.
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The Washington Post
If Spencer has style and performance in spades, those strengths aren’t matched by the film’s screenplay, which is both overly on-the-nose and peppered with metaphors...
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NPR
The point of Spencer seems to be not to reveal Diana the real person, but to treat her differently in a cinematic sense...
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CNN
Once you get past how Stewart captures Diana's look and spirit, there's not much more to see or learn.
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