Cruella

"There’s an unexpectedly huge amount of old-fashioned fun to be had..."

"A deliciously dark, unexpectedly empowering origin story that's just the right amount of campy."

"The film's outward liveliness can't mask the inner inertia it has as just another lifeless product assembled in a factory."

"Everything that’s good about Cruella can’t obscure the fact that it was a very bad idea."

"Colourful, loud, and unexpected..."

"What Cruella lacks in script... it makes up for in sheer visual punch..."

"It doesn’t really succeed on the prequel front, but Cruella still stands on its own as an energetic, entertaining, and atypical comedy."

"It's probably too violent for little kids, too kiddie for older ones, and little more than a loud chore for parents."

"Cruella isn’t a bad movie, even if its heroine is nowhere near bad enough."

"Cruella feels like a wildly imaginative superhero movie, but with fashion instead of superpowers."

"A collection of pin-drop lines and killer GIFs pressed haphazardly into movie form."

"The fun of Cruella lies mostly in watching its eccentric world whirr and clatter away, and the film only shows signs of strain when the time comes to push the plot over a hump."

"What could have been a mere IP cash-in instead becomes an unexpectedly cinematic crime-and-couture romp..."

"Achieves the dubious feat of being tedious, transgressive, chaotic and inert at the same time."

"The “too much is just enough” attitude that makes it visually pleasurable also makes (Cruella) a slog in the storytelling department."

"Cruella never embraces darkness in the way it keeps threatening to."

"One of Disney's best live-action retreads of their animated classics yet."

"With all its careful polish and on-the-nose musical choices, it’s about as punk as doing your tax assessment."

"Cruella ends up feeling like a film torn between being daring and sticking to convention: a helium balloon that keeps getting dragged back under the weight of its own narrative ballast."

"While the narrative fails to make a case for itself, Cruella succeeds at style and spectacle."

"The script makes sturdy bones for the costumes, scene-stealing of course..."

"Stone’s transition from wide-eyed innocent to the beastly Cruella is fun, but it’s Emma Thompson who steals the show as the icy Baroness..."

"When I say it has something for everyone I’m not being sarcastic, though I’m also not being entirely complimentary."