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Audience Member Meh. I love Portman and Jude Law in a role that requires acting= always welcome, b/c he's great- but this film isn't about anything and sequenced poorly. The school shooting scene was one of the most remarkable and disturbing I've ever seen, unfortunately, it goes south from there. Nobody turns into somebody turns into A-hole,nothing to like about that. Also, why would you have a 20+minute segment of Portman's character performing on stage? They did like a whole set of music? Stupid. This almost feels like 3 different short stories smashed together to poor effect. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/22/25 Full Review A G This movie is in competition for worst ever. What's worse then callously exploiting the school shooting epidemic? Using it for a very long vapid, lifeless pop music promotional video. And there's lots of dead air, silence as to convey gravitas. I can't tell which performance was more wooden, Natalie Portman as Padme or this. At at least you could say in the first one she was portraying a clone. And the music is typical Sia: overwrought, "epic" trash. Worst thing I've witnessed in a long time. That's the most noteworthy thing about it. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/16/25 Full Review Chris O It's one of those movies where you wonder if she died in the beginning and the rest are her last thoughts before dying. I wonder if the narration by Willem DaFoe was tacked on last minute to try to pull the film together with some message. Not sure what it was. All I know is we better do everything to stop school shootings or we'll be inundated with very mediocre drug-addled pop stars. I mean if anyone survives. From the poster I was thinking it would be more like a rock opera. I was expecting Phantom of the Paradise or Hedwig and the Angry Inch. This was not that. No sense of humor at all. Passed the time but not essential. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/19/24 Full Review Alec B Lots of vague ideas about "culture" are raised but by the midway point it becomes clear that the movie has little to say about anything. Its just a beautifully photographed vanity project. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/08/24 Full Review Matthew P Those who rated this poorly, clearly didn't get the deeper meaning: america as a pop culture figure, the "performance" of america in light of the tragedies since 2001, how "america" is an idea being sold to the world rather than the truth of what it really is, america not holding itself accountable and tackling the tough truths of what it really means to live in here. how the performance of freedom and liberty is just as evil as the terrorism we see so fiercely fight against. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/14/23 Full Review Joe S This is a whole lot of movie with a lot of holes in its logic and through-line, including that Bronx accent Celeste seems to have acquired once Natalie Portman enters as an addled mother who is also an arena spectacle as a pop star with a serious drug problem. The people who were around young Celeste (played wonderfully by the lovely Raffey Cassidy) have oddly not aged (manager, agent) when they're around the adult Celeste played by Natalie Portman, who chews the scenery up but in the end delivers a strangely intense song and dance in concert. Flashy kaleidoscopic montages act as time-frame transitions as Celeste matures, and they actually work. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/08/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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