Jeanne du Barry - Movie Reviews (2024)

The film promises to be a great entertainment spectacle for the audience, despite the vain aspects and scandals surrounding its protagonists, which can be compared to the story itself. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 9, 2024

If nothing else, Jeanne du Barry does tell quite a nice story about a woman who rose from rags to riches using her harlotry, wits, and heart and by capitalizing on the King’s infatuation with her.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2024

The opulent spectacle filmed on location in the Palace of Versailles, with wardrobe courtesy of Chanel, has entertainment value for sure -- if not depth, complexity nor romantic passion, much less the real Jeanne.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2024

It's a standard "costume drama", but it is done well, with sumptuous costumes, filmed at Versailles, and the lead actress, Maiwenn, is absolutely fantastic.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 5, 2024

Jeanne du Barry looks amazing, with significant attention to costume and setting details; part of it was filmed in Versailles itself. Its depth stops there, though, at ankle-deep...

Full Review | May 22, 2024

Smug in her sense of self and confident in the life choices that led to her rise to the top, there's no stopping the main character of Jeanne du Barry.

Full Review | May 17, 2024

This feels like a superficial, voguish treatment of a complex and controversial character.

Full Review | May 6, 2024

But in a gorgeous period piece that is never boring, you can’t deny the entertainment value of Madame du Barry, one of the most captivating women since Madame Bovary, and all the more fascinating because she was real.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 6, 2024

Any actual criticisms related to the sexuality, the patriarchy, and the powerful's misuse of power have no place in this film, and that makes the general negative portrayal of everyone else feel light and insubstantial.

Full Review | May 6, 2024

[T]he story's intriguing complexities are smoothed over, submerged, and deemed less interesting than the lovers' stunning surroundings.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 5, 2024

The tableaux are stunning, the costumes surreal and truffle-rich, but the film doesn’t let period details obscure the scandalous love story at its royal center. A warm, scented bath of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2024

The longest, most drawn-out death scene in movie history. The visuals, art direction, costuming, and look of it are gorgeous. The film’s an eyeful more than anything and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2024

The emotions remain muted in a handsomely mounted period piece that feels too tame and conventional.

Full Review | May 3, 2024

“Jeanne DuBarry” should more than satisfy fans of period pieces featuring elaborate costumes, powdered wigs, and – at its heart – a woman making her own place in the world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 3, 2024

While sumptuously produced, this version is slow moving and never as compelling as it should have been.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 2, 2024

Overlapping with Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” but minus the mischievously anachronistic touches, it’s a finely wrought story of palace intrigue enriched by lush sets and decors.

Full Review | May 2, 2024

Magnificent to behold but basically lacking a point, this period-rich historical epic seems uncertain about what it wants to say about its main character.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2024

Jeanne du Barry marks a solid return for Johnny Depp to the world of cinema in a period piece where he portrays King Louis XV of France.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2024

Handsomely mounted and, though languid, watchable, but in the end it’s neither a penetrating character study of Louis XV’s mistress nor a biting satire of the decrepit Ancien Regime the king represented.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 2, 2024

One might expect a film pairing these two actors would produce combustible results. But “Jeanne du Barry,” written, directed by and starring Maïwenn, is an ultimately snoozy historical period piece.

Full Review | May 2, 2024