Grace of Monaco

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A hilariously ham-handed attempt to dig beneath the Kelly mystique, only to find further foil-wrapped layers of mystique beneath. Well, maybe not mystique so much as a perfumed blankness.

Time Out London by Dave Calhoun

Grace of Monaco could have been a camp delight, but it feels too much like a stodgy, outdated television movie to work even as kitsch.

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

By exploring a narrow scenario from one chapter of Kelly's life, Grace of Monaco plays like fragments of an uncompleted biopic that's been art directed within an inch of its life.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

The film isn't just bad - it's awful - ineptly directed (Olivier Dahan), terribly written (Arash Amel) and bafflingly acted by an assortment of miscast faces.

The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton

Rarely competent, unintentionally hilarious and borderline reprehensible in both its politics and its take on gender roles.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It is a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk. The cringe-factor is ionospherically high.

The Telegraph by Robbie Collin

You can sense what Dahan’s aiming at: by introducing the spectre of Hitch early on, he lays out Grace’s existence as a kind of lived-in Hitchcock thriller... But the acting is so heightened, and the script so thoroughly awful, that Dahan’s idea – his big and seemingly only one – can’t begin to stick.

Variety by Scott Foundas

Amel’s script is agonizingly airless and contrived

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton

The real problem here is not the shameless blurring of fact and fiction, but how unforgivably dull it all seems.