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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½

  listening to Jonny Greenwood slowly earn his eventual status as one of the greatest composers in film history is one of those things that makes life just a little more bearable.

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  Review by daniel ¨*:·. ɞ ♱ ★★★★★ 6

  the way men acted when the joker came out, this is my joker except i will be so much worse

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  Review by AmandaTheJedi ★★★★

  This is a film that completely hinges on its lead performance and I'm happy to say that I'm now the president of the 'Kristen Stewart deserves an Oscar for this movie' campaign.

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★★★★ 7

  SPENCER blends fact with fiction in a tragic psychological nightmare. Kristen Stewart’s performance is a monumental force showcasing Diana’s torment & resiliency. Johnny Greenwood’s score mixes jazz with tension while Claire Mathon composes one incredible shot after another. One of the best of the year. Time to exhale. Wow!

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  Review by Prateek Sharma 8

  Robert Pattinson 🦇👱
  Kristen Stewart 👸👑
  It's time for Taylor Lautner to shine. 😎

  We live in a twilight world.
  

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  Review by The Oscar Expert ★★★★ 7

  SPENCER features a stunning, transformative lead perfomance from Kristen Stewart. Greenwood's score and Mathon's cinematography are beautiful. Though a little repetitive in its messaging, it's a focused, distressing portrait of a constrained soul yearning for autonomy.

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  Review by Erik Nordgren ★★★★½ 2

  if you saw The Shining and The Favourite and thought “huh i wish these were high camp and about princess diana” then LOOK NO FURTHER BECAUSE KRISTEN STEWART AND SALLY HAWKINS’ EDNA MODE BOB HAIRCUT ARE CHEWINGGG ON OSCAR GOLD.

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★

  Very beautiful, strange, mannered and melodramatic movie. Knotty and manic in a way that’s - the more I think about it -  a little bit miraculous. So impressed with Kristen Stewart, in awe of Larraín, Mathon, Durran, Dyas. There’s a candlelit dinner where pearls end up in pea soup which knocked the wind out of me.

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  Review by earfp

  the poster omfg

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  Review by Jaime Rebanal ★★★★

  TIFF 2021: #10 (Special Events)

  It's unreal just how well Kristen Stewart fits herself into the role of Princess Diana, but it's very much the sort of biographical film that can only be attributed to a filmmaker like Pablo Larraín in that they're not truly biopics either. Like Jackie, which focused on the life of Jackie Kennedy following the JFK assassination, Spencer shows us the world from the eyes of Princess Diana on a Christmas weekend, amidst a cold marriage to Prince Charles.

  I've never exactly been on board with how Larraín brings these stories to the screen, but in this case you're seeing Princess Diana's life under an oppressive lens - feeling trapped as she was. But as stated…

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 @ TIFF ★★★

  TIFF '21

  “Happy Christmas”

  Chilean director Pablo Larraín made Jackie (2016), another film about a political wife who was the victim of her husband’s affairs. This film focuses on Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart), as she encounters the double standards of Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) who is allowed to run rampant and disappear as he wishes. Diana, on the other hand, must wear the assigned dresses at the proper times and stand by while she is accused of infidelities. She would rather be anywhere else and she refuses to stay in her “place”.

  The biopic offers Diana’s hallucinations of Anne Boleyn, expressing the desire to masturbate, being forced to curtsy to the queen, and even unveils her OCD, anorexia, bulimia, and…

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  Review by Robert Daniels ★★★★★

  The Princess Diana biopic Spencer isn’t your prototypical biographical film. Then again, the film’s director, Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín, isn’t known for making familiar biopics, either. His depictions of Jackie Kennedy’s life after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Jackie, and poet Pablo Neruda on the run from new Chilean president Gabriel González Videla in Neruda, are raw, unflinching films that focus closely on a specific moment in their subjects’ lives.

  Likewise with Spencer, Larraín doesn’t provide the expected Princess Diana story. There’s no courtship or fairy-tale wedding, à la The Crown. It doesn’t chart her life from being a newborn fated for greater heights. Nor does it affix her as a predictably doomed victim. Instead, Spencer takes place during a…