
The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Stafford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Cristina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star. One of Stafford's clients, Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the 60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night... Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie... (Full plot summary below)
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The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Stafford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Cristina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star. One of Stafford's clients, Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the 60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night... Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha, has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania and befriended a limo driver Jerome who is also an aspiring actor.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinThere’s so much in this seething cauldron of a film, so many film-industry neuroses exposed and horrors nested within horrors, that one viewing is too much, and not nearly enough. Cronenberg has made a film that you want to unsee – and then see and unsee again. |
| The Ooh TrayEd WhitfieldIt could be a long time before Canada's favourite son finds himself invited to an awards after party. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen WhittyA dark and twisted Hollywood Gothic that - with its mixed-together helpings of incest, murder, madness and surreality - can feel a little more like David Lynch than Cronenberg. |
| Total FilmJames MottramDetractors may carp that Cronenberg is showing us nothing new, but Maps is so flawless in its execution, it vividly refreshes the subject matter. Never overcooking the setting, it’s a story right in his wheelhouse; a very human look at characters barely clinging to their humanity. |
| The New York Review of BooksFrancine ProsePart of what's exciting about Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg and Bruce Wagner's new film about Los Angeles, is the inventiveness and ease with which it stakes out a dark corner of territory under the bright California sun. |
| Hollywood & FineMarshall FineThere's a difference between tart and vinegary and Maps to the Stars is consistently on the wrong side of it. |
| Globe and MailGeoff PevereThe creepiest haunted Hollywood movie since "Mulholland Drive," David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars is working an even deeper graveyard groove than David Lynch did. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfWhile it lacks outright Cronenbergian pleasures, "Maps to the Stars" repeatedly connects as a dark comedy and insidious display of rancid human behavior. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottIt takes a perverse effort of will to love “Maps to the Stars.” It’s a little too chilly, and in some places too easy. But you may find yourself drawn back to it, and retracing its route from the familiar to the uncanny, from entertainment to revulsion, from dream to nightmare. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrA lot of the movie works, but enough doesn’t for Maps to the Stars to go down as a lost opportunity and one of this director’s braver missteps. |