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Mary Shelley
Directed by
Haifaa al-Mansour
PG-13
2018
2h
Drama
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6.4
40%
48%
7.0
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The life of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21-year-old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of "Frankenstein".
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Cast of Mary Shelley
Elle Fanning
Mary Shelley / Songs
Douglas Booth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bel Powley
Claire Clairmont
Stephen Dillane
William Godwin
Joanne Froggatt
Mary Jane Clairmont
Tom Sturridge
Lord Byron
Ben Hardy
Dr. John Polidori
Maisie Williams
Isabel Baxter
Hugh O'Conor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ciara Charteris
Harriet Shelley
Jack Hickey
Thomas Hogg
Laurence Foster
Bookseller
Derek Riddell
William Baxter
Stuart Graham
Publisher
Owen Richards
William Godwin
Martin Phillips
Deacon
Chloe Vos
Ianthe
Serena Barnes
Landlady
Mella Carron
Girl in Park
Sarah Lamesch
Eliza
Mary Shelley Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The movie, which gradually slows to a crawl, could have used a little galvanism itself.
Spectrum Culture
Kristen Lopez
The Shelleys are cut from the CW world, or from another bad Douglas Booth-starring literary film, 2013's Romeo and Juliet.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Ironically, this story about the sources of inspiration is empty of just that: inspiration.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The film, though handsome and well-acted, reduces Mary Shelley's accomplishments; it's almost over by the time "Frankenstein" gets written, with little attention paid to its author's creative spark.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
As it stands, this monstrously inept creation is more terrifying than any scenario the author conjured up.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
To make boring the revelries of 19th century literati is no mean feat, but it is "Mary Shelley's" chief accomplishment.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There's nothing internal about Fanning's performance to suggest that Mary is an artist with something she needs to say and that must be said.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Mary Shelley is a dull, tame and disappointingly conventional biopic that almost never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The director and her star make their point under the meticulously appointed cover of the film's 18th-century setting, but they make it plainly, cleanly, and with fire.
Observer
Rex Reed
Respectable, but dull and tedious.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
Mary Shelley wants to be a film about artistic creation and female liberation. And, to a degree, it is. But it's so flat and poorly paced that it just feels like a squandered opportunity of monstrous proportions.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's a deeply conventional movie about ragingly unconventional people.
RogerEbert.com
Susan Wloszczyna
Don't expect anyone to shout, 'It's alive!' as they depart the theater.
Los Angeles Times
Katie Walsh
Celebrates Mary Shelley for the trailblazing woman that she is, but hews far too close to convention to truly represent her life.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Viewers may initially find Fanning's American-girl presence jarring, but she holds her own - and her accent. By the movie's end, her performance has come to seem as authentic as anything else in this perfumed account.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Its de-complicated characters and conflicts don't tell us anything about what it meant to live in a time or to make something-only the vague order in which some important things happened, the result like rushed homework.
TheWrap
William Bibbiani
Handsomely produced but as dramatically inert as a high school oral book report, giving audiences the gist of the Frankenstein author's story but never, ironically, bringing her to life.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
Nothing about it is inspired, save some of Sturridge's Byronic mood swings.
The New Republic
Jo Livingstone
Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley is the movie's only real grace. She has been given a poor script to inhabit.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A reminder that England in the early 19th century remains a rich repository of stories and characters, and era that can be made to feel charmingly quaint and bracingly modern, on both the page and the screen.
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