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Maps to the Stars

2014
Drama
1h 51m
A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.

Maps to the Stars

2014
Drama
1h 51m
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Rated 20 Oct 2017
72
62nd
I guess I was in the mood for an at times uncomfortable or darkly amusing movie about broken, deluded people tainted by their superficial 'humans are commodities' environment. Like a pig wallowing in mud, I enjoyed all the hypocrisy and cynicism. It stumbles a few times towards the end, but Moore was damn good and Wasikowska was my kind of messed up. It's not really that special but pushed my specific misanthropy buttons.
Rated 30 May 2018
68
57th
I don't know. With each new Cronenberg movie I watch I lose a little more faith in the hopes that someday he'll make a really great slapstick comedy.
Rated 08 Dec 2014
3
38th
The well-worn cliches of Hollywood as a hotbed of gladhanding nepotism and vacuous hedonism are given such a melodramatic, sleazy treatment by Cronenberg that, if nothing else, it makes for great trash. The throughline of incest both implicit and explicit is fun but underexplored. John Cusack is looking more and more like an aging lesbian vampire with time.
Rated 16 Feb 2016
71
53rd
Interesting and well acted semi-return to form from Cronenberg. It's an intriguing and kinda subtle mix of nasty satire, twisted psycho-drama and weird fantasy. Messy and uneven but at its best it's like watching an explosion in extreme slow motion.
Rated 09 Jun 2015
60
34th
Just have a vagina growing out of Cusack's back and this is almost ALMOST kinda good Cronenberg. The worst CGI fire you'll ever see in anything.
Rated 05 Dec 2014
74
68th
Physical disfigurement, incest, the fear of decay, repressed knowledge forcing its way out... Yeah, Cronenberg's back, and he's brought the interesting bits of his last few movies into this return to form. Starts out disjointed, gradually comes together as the characters fall apart. A movie that pretends it's doing Sunset Boulevard to pay the bills while secretly doing Lilith.
Rated 29 Aug 2015
70
61st
If this flick were made by anyone but Cronenberg, it would have been pure Hollywood circle wank. I like the Cronenbergness, but almost as if it were a rule, I HATE movies about Hollywood. So, I guess I sort of like this movie, but I don't love it -- we can chill and play some SEGA, but I'm taking sex off the table.
Rated 06 May 2015
55
48th
Cosmopolis was a turd of such magnitude that it clogged the toilet. Cronenbergs newest would be a lot easier to enjoy if you didn't still have the stench of Cosmo in your nostrils- He recasts Pattinson and even has him fuck in a limo AGAIN, just as I was about to forget about his last blunder. These days, making a movie about the decadence of the rich & famous (in Hollywood! Edgy!) seems fatuous, but Cronie and his cast attack the material with bloodlust & gusto. MttS sucks while it entertains.
Rated 19 Apr 2015
54
56th
"Okay, kids, last chance for incest before we leave the Milky Way!"
Rated 04 Apr 2015
4
34th
Hollywood is an incredibly easy target and this is equivalent to shooting ducks in a barrel. The best moments are when people are getting injured or killed; which is to say the enjoyment one can get out of this movie is purely carnal/trashy in nature. Wasikowska and Moore mostly steal the acting spotlight. Not sure what's happening to John Cusack's face.
Rated 07 Mar 2015
3
32nd
What Alex Watkins said but with a lower score.
Rated 23 Dec 2014
75
73rd
Forget for a moment the combined star-power of these actors. This here is a powerful dream-nightmare that sets clear limits onto the characters and their combined destiny. Something eccentric and excellent is left to tick here. It helps 'Maps' also has very dirty sense of humor. Self-Satirical if it were a hollywood flick, but one gets the impression early on that this ball of yarn does not unravel into a traditional happy ending. Cronenberg gets weirder and weirder.
Rated 15 Nov 2014
20
12th
A movie with some fun ideas, yet squanders them on... nothing? The idea that Hollywood is an acidic, vile place is nothing new, and this movie says that almost verbatim, but also includes even trashier material than usual. Is the bizarre incest plot some commentary on Hollywood nepotism? I don't know, and I'm not sure I should care. Cronenberg used to be so great. What happened?
Rated 09 Nov 2014
5
70th
vabina
Rated 28 Sep 2014
60
10th
On the plus side, it's a savage look at the rotten heart of Hollywood with some incredibly dark humour. The cast isn't bad, despite some awkward moments, and Moore is flat out exceptional, both hilarious and raw as a strung out actress. However, it has next to no narrative momentum, the visuals are flat and the writing tries too hard sometimes ("the world will know we have done crimes"?). Like Cronenberg's last couple of films, it frustrates me by falling short of what it could be.
Rated 27 Sep 2014
31
27th
"The world will know we have done crimes" (rolls eyes). In which Coronenberg goes from a brilliant DeLillo adaptation to a smugly nihilistic yet indulgently self-flagellating Bret Easton Ellis knockoff bit of nastiness. There are some good performances (namely Wasikowska, who continues to impress me) as well as some terrible ones, and some typically Cronenberg-ian touches of violence and bodily ickiness, but mostly it feels awfully pretentious and even rather tired with it's meta-"trashiness".
Rated 23 Feb 2024
45
22nd
With this, I wrap up Cronenberg's filmography, and it was really the wrong one to save for last. There's a kernel of something interesting in here but it's buried under a ton of shit that doesn't work and a bunch of awful dialogue, and it doesn't help that one of the lead actors is really bad
Rated 27 Aug 2020
69
21st
Blah blah Hollywood bad! Blah blah celebrities bad! Jesus Christ, how was this film made in 2014 and not the early 90s? They were rolling out these kinds of scripts like hotcakes back then.
Rated 26 Oct 2016
79
50th
Someone recommended this to me because of the Neon Demon. I liked that movie more.
Rated 14 Mar 2016
43
10th
Maps To The Stars feels like a relic from a bygone era, like a smear job written by a bitter insider that would have seemed shocking 15-20 years ago. What attracted Cronenberg to the script exactly? It's a mystery to this viewer. Hardcore fans are trying desperately to claim this film isn't really about 'Hollywood', that it's a kind of an 'analysis of contemporary society' (Hollywood as microcosm), but they need to face facts: he made a boring and obvious film. It happens. Move on.
Rated 24 Aug 2015
76
38th
What a grotesque painting! Julianne Moore is amazingly freakish, Wasikowska is once again taking up the sexualised/sensitive freak-kid part, Cusack really owns the phony healer-dealer persona, and the entire caricature builds up so nicely.
Rated 03 Aug 2015
83
72nd
It has that Cronenberg feel of weird surrealism mixed with realism and works pretty well, although the final act was a bit weak.
Rated 18 Jun 2015
16
6th
Too flat and static and lifeless to work up any zing as a parody/satire of Hollywood soap opera narcissism, too disaffected and confusing to work as a straight-up narrative, and too relentlessly unpleasant to work as much of anything else. If you must watch, see if you can decide which character's the most detestable. For me it was a tie between all of them.
Rated 13 May 2015
48
44th
Cronenberg what are you doing
Rated 09 May 2015
70
63rd
I think that Cronemberg see himself or his films like sons of a incest with Hollywood. There is rage here, the same rage of the Wasikowska's character. Anyway, is full of stereotypes, but it works until you can bear them.
Rated 23 Apr 2015
41
65th
I love Cronenberg. I love his asthetic and his way of capturing actors and physicality. He gives voice to the stuff we run from (or as some, in films such as The Fly, run toward) and doesn't hold back. This movie, to me, is about the failures of success. The idea that you can't whitewash your private life with public success. That shit will always find you, in the form of ghosts or worse. To me, the movie isn't really about Hollywood. Hollywood just provides the best setting for his themes.
Rated 12 Apr 2015
30
5th
WTF?
Rated 07 Mar 2015
79
48th
In Hollywood, the members of the Weiss family are a troubled bunch; incest, hallucinations, mysterious scars, substance abuse, emotional abuse, and greed lead to a grim fate for all. The madness of Hollywood is pretty low-hanging fruit for satire, and there are certainly no revelations to be found, but with David Cronenberg at the helm, you're guaranteed a good, off-kilter atmosphere and a fine sense of black humor. The acting is great as well, especially Julianne Moore as a mother-haunted star.
Rated 28 Feb 2015
78
59th
I feel if you like Mommie Dearest then you'll like this.
Rated 05 Nov 2014
77
49th
Cronenberg always makes such interesting movies, even if they are not always hits. And his sense of humour is both dry and irrepressible. This film worked better on a comedic level than a psychological one. While there was potentially a lot going on with the characters, DC never went full "Mulholland Drive" mindfuck on us. They were just disposable puppets in his satirical and self-referential deconstruction of Hollywood. Not fully enjoyable, but had its moments. Plenty of scenery got chewed.
Rated 03 Aug 2014
7
58th
Following a string of disappointments, Cronenberg returns with a discomforting but mostly darkly comical deconstruction of Hollywood's celebrity culture and its morally debased population. While it may not be quite up there with Sunset Blvd. or The Player, the cold-hearted sharpness with which it explores its subject matter lends the film substantial credence.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
65
51st
An okay film that, at best, attempts something seemingly novel, but it stagnates. I did enjoy the strangeness of an A-list cast that performs in this movie about themselves being part of this incestuous para-society. Pseudonymity aside, I often wondered if the actors were engaged in speaking about themselves (that is, Julianne Moore playing herself), which is interesting. Reminds me in ways of the thematics of Crash and Dead Ringers, or seen as Cronenberg's 'Society'.
Rated 13 Jan 2023
70
42nd
It's sort of like a shocking black comedy that forgot to include any jokes. It's meticulously constructed and extraordinarily well acted, and I'm not sure that it ultimately adds up to much of anything.
Rated 20 Jul 2022
3
31st
need to see this again to really figure out how i feel bout it, the tone feels pitch perfect, alternating between dark humour and endearing moments but i wasnt ready for such a restrained Cronenberg
Rated 12 Sep 2021
52
43rd
Don't judge a book by its cover has never been truer than what Hollywood is truly like
Rated 18 Jan 2021
30
10th
I'm a fan of Cronenberg, but this unfunny and deeply annoying dark satire is just awful.
Rated 23 Mar 2020
62
31st
Every turn Map to the Stars took made me less interested in the film. A passing line at the beginning about incest turns out to be the main plot-point of the film. The characters are narcissistic, obnoxious, mopey caricatures that get progressively more annoying as the film goes on. They are well-acted though. The film opts for disturbing imagery but backs it up with neither substance nor humour, making it come across as melodramatic and silly; an apt description of the film overall.
Rated 28 Feb 2020
75
69th
The spirit of classic Cronenberg, applied to the mythos of Hollywood.
Rated 14 Sep 2018
4
91st
Hollywood and it's dynasties as dysfunctional and in-bred as royalty. Kinda Virginia Andrews gothic and telemovie which works. It's not really as funny, or scary as it feels it should be but, watching in the fallout of Me Too it seems beautifully angry.
Rated 02 Jun 2017
75
78th
The best late Cronenberg
Rated 10 Mar 2017
77
64th
This is another interesting and disturbing film from David Cronenberg. The script is really dark and original. The cast does a fine job, Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska in particular are outstanding. Overall I would recommend this film.
Rated 25 Sep 2016
78
42nd
Interesting take on the people behind the faces you see on the big screen. I don't know if I really "got" everything but I enjoyed the movie nonetheless. I really liked Moore's performance.
Rated 16 Mar 2016
70
19th
Ich bezweifle, ob die Themen und Situationen von Maps To The Stars tief genug herausgearbeitet worden sind, um die brilliante Regie sowie die grossen Schauspieler zu verdienen. Die Geschichte und wie die Charaktere miteinander verbunden werden, macht auf mich einen gekünstelten Eindruck... die ganze Rezension sowie die für uns wichtigsten Filme "Hollywood über sich" auf cinegeek.de
Rated 25 Feb 2016
6
83rd
Cronenberg's dark comic blast into the dazzle and depravity of Hollyweird. Moore delivers a tour de force of ego unleashed. You can laugh with Maps to the Stars, but you can't laugh it off.
Rated 21 Feb 2016
0
11th
Rated 20 Jan 2016
73
46th
Weird and cool.
Rated 18 Oct 2015
62
18th
I wish this map would lead me away from this film. I really didn't enjoy Maps to the Stars. Maybe I just don't like David Cronenberg. I hated his last film and this one was at least palatable but it had a stupid ending and the subject matter of the movie was too easy of a target: Hollywood. Yes, everyone in Hollywood does drugs and fights and blah blah blah. Julianne Moore has good performance...
Rated 24 Aug 2015
63
60th
i sure hope John Cusack got to go on his book tour and talk to Oprah
Rated 04 Aug 2015
45
12th
Was this meant to be a frustrating mess? I guess we'll never know. This movie seems to think it has a purpose, it just never became clear to me what that purpose is.
Rated 12 Jul 2015
35
3rd
Other than Julianne Moore's AMAZING acting, the film sucked. Very disappointed.
Rated 25 Jun 2015
55
47th
Bizarro movie with interesting characters and underdeveloped satire on Hollywood. I had fun watching it, but looking back it is just too silly.
Rated 17 Apr 2015
100
97th
ALRIGHT, Cronenusack!!! and can get some MOORE Pattinson with that FISH[er]!!!!!! Love that swivel! NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Hey Hey Hey GOOD MOVIE!!!!
Rated 28 Mar 2015
68
56th
I thought that the trailer spoiled me everything. Not even close! Seriously, Mia W. is great in parts where she's sick, but she's even better in those where she's sick in the head.
Rated 28 Feb 2015
90
80th
The most deranged satire Robert Altman never made. The performances are superb on various levels.
Rated 23 Feb 2015
60
31st
Very ambitious but fails to reach the heights it's going for. Some very interesting scenes with very disturbed characters, but lacks meaning and cohesion.
Rated 13 Feb 2015
70
53rd
There is no way the Academy would reward Julianne Moore for her performance in THIS film. A real shame, though.
Rated 29 Jan 2015
73
46th
Cronenberg, bu kez de Hollywood'u disütopik bir evrene çeviriyor. Eleştiri şekli pekala fazla kaba bulunabilir ama filmin incelikli olmaktan ziyade olabildiğince "pulp" olmaya çalıştığı aşikar ve bunu çok iyi başarıyor.
Rated 26 Jan 2015
82
70th
a good psychotic watch; Julianne Moore is simply amazing...collage of several underexplored themes
Rated 25 Jan 2015
75
68th
I found this extremely funny, in its own bitter way. Especially the kid movie star. Oh my God, one of 2014's best characters. And kudos for making Robert Pattinson interesting. That's worth 10 points at least.
Rated 22 Jan 2015
55
23rd
It was an interesting watch. Not Cronenberg's best, not his worst. And never boring, but still not there yet either. And what a star studded cast.. Just wow..
Rated 11 Jan 2015
83
63rd
interesting and very disturbing. there were some great performances, and it did offer a bleak, sickening view of hollywood life, though for me, that wasn't what it was really about.the problem was that the actual story was so surreal that it didn't feel relevant to "hollywood" anymore. the film didn't work as a satire of hollywood for me because the characters' struggles didn't seem to be caused or affected by it. the film could have taken place in any other setting to the same effect.
Rated 04 Jan 2015
80
36th
Nice acting ( Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson to a certain extent ), interesting ghost story but lacks the Cronenberg touch.
Rated 02 Jan 2015
50
0th
David Cronenberg #7
Rated 27 Dec 2014
48
36th
Skewering Hollywood never seemed like such a big feat to me, probably because I don't find Hollywood to be uniquely important or interesting. It's directed by David Cronenberg, who has immense formal expertise and style, but other than that, Maps to the Stars has very little going for it.
Rated 13 Dec 2014
50
7th
Trailer was cut so well that it turned out to be a completely different type of film than I thought. Unfortunately the film was worse than the trailer.
Rated 13 Dec 2014
20
2nd
What a psycho movie. Maps To The Stars was truly a waste of my time.... 20/100.
Rated 11 Dec 2014
65
36th
"Death to Hollywood, death to incest?" Is that it? Cronenburg made this maybe a bit too heavy and absurd for me.
Rated 05 Dec 2014
60
11th
Good concept that falls extremely flat. Nice performances all around, especially from Julianne Moore but it wasn't enough to save this bore fest satire of Hollywood family life.
Rated 24 Nov 2014
65
54th
David Cronenberg has always been very hit and miss to me. This one falls somewhere in the middle, though. It's got some solid stuff, like some dark satire on celebrity and Hollywood. And it has some good performances, with Julianne Moore being particularly fantastic. But I don't know if it really comes together as a film. It all feels a bit messy. It had some great, effective scenes, but I don't think I'll remember much about it in general in a year.
Rated 19 Nov 2014
45
12th
The worst Cronenberg movie I've seen, but it's still almost passable. Julianne Moore was wonderful yet again, and it offers an off-kilter look at the Hollywood lifestyle. I reckon the satire is on point, even if it's nothing original, but it left me feeling cold. Cosmopolis did that too but I was more into it and enjoyed it quite a bit, but the detached dialogue, the sometimes stiff acting and general weirdness didn't do it for me this time around. Competently made but wooden and unappealing.
Rated 03 Nov 2014
60
17th
I don't know... I mean, I understand that this was another take on the moral decay that comes with Hollywood and the pursuit of celebrity, but it didn't seem to offer anything terribly fresh on that idea. I suppose it was interesting, but I walked away feeling rather disconnected from it.
Rated 18 Oct 2014
30
7th
Oct 2014, Filmekimi, Sarp & Bengu / Forget
Rated 17 Oct 2014
66
66th
Not quite Cronenberg's Mulholland Dr., but his The Canyons. Guess the director never hated so much his own characters in this satire of Hollywood emptiness, as dialogues seem both funny and self-destructive. Fear of failure is the real ghost here -- the same feeling that haunts producers, huh? -- and the abrasive relationships -- incest everywhere (Liv & John, Mia & Evan, Julianne & her Mom) -- deliver cold lines about pleasures that don't please (drugs, sex, violence, the drive to destroy).
Rated 14 Oct 2014
69
42nd
O lance é que estava indo bem até o final, uma sátira que provavelmente estará datada daqui 30 anos.
Rated 13 Oct 2014
70
77th
If you told me this was the latest David Lynch film I wouldn't have been surprised. It's an odd black comedy - the funniest line is the aids one about 7 minutes in. I'd recommend it if you're a fan of Cronenberg
Rated 06 Oct 2014
80
63rd
Quite a fun movie, on top of its rather thin critique of Hollywood divas and its twisted storyline that leads into operative levels of tragedy. It doesn't seem to have the lasting power, but makes up for it by how entertaining its is when watched.
Rated 04 Oct 2014
65
36th
Sinister and strange, Cronenberg returns to the psychological drama front he's explored in Spider, History of Violence, and Dangerous Method. He's kind of shied away from body horror over the past decade-plus, and this one is not among his best. There certainly are moments, and all the performances resonate pretty well as a criticism of the vapid nature of celebrity culture, but it offers little more.
Rated 25 Sep 2014
78
90th
Julianne Moore is fucking epic as a desperate, narcissistic actress wallowing in her own venom. A black-hearted, tragic, cynical farce of dancing toxic personalities.
Rated 22 Sep 2014
76
60th
Cronenberg takes a deep swipe at Tinseltown and the poisonous people that keep the lights on. Dark, black but not the classic cold that we've previously seen from him, a la Crash. This has visible emotion (most of it winning Moore a gong at Cannes) and poetic themes lying below the incestuous surface.
Rated 21 Sep 2014
33
25th
The story did not touch me anyhow. Boring.
Rated 21 Sep 2014
60
62nd
Maps to the Stars is like a calculated mess. It has too much going on, it's incredibly weird, and you'll be creeped out by parts of it. It's anchored by another truly great performance from Julianne Moore, in addition to some strong supporting work -- and it will make you think and laugh for lots of its running time. It's too filled, too jumbled, and a lot of people probably won't find it terribly entertaining if they know little about movies or the Hollywood lifestyle.
Rated 10 Sep 2014
80
54th
A bizarre dark comedy that satirizes Hollywood life. A wonderful script with biting humour compliments Cronenberg's sensibilities. The entire cast is on their game, from veterans John Cusack, Olivia Williams and Julianne Moore to the younger stars Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson and newcomer Evan Bird. Will undoubtedly offend some viewers but it is worth a look for fans of David Cronenberg.
Rated 01 Sep 2014
57
45th
Cynical and fun. While it lasts...

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