Factory Girl Critic Reviews

This is a movie about power, and its spectacle is that of a woman losing all of it.Read the full review

As Factory Girl more than acknowledges, Edie Sedgwick's downward spiral was ultimately her own doing. Yet even as the film captures the silk-screen outline of her rise and fall, it never quite colors in who she was.Read the full review

If not for Sienna Miller's engaging portrayal of Edie Sedgwick, Factory Girl would have little to offer.Read the full review

Director George Hickenlooper captures the energy and ultra-irony of Warhol's scene, but his attempts to give the film a conventional biopic arc end up wallowing in dime-store psychology.Read the full review

For a movie about the tumultuous friendships among artists, musicians, and filmmakers during one of the 20th century's periods of creative ferment, Factory Girl is remarkably incurious about cinema, music, and art.Read the full review

The wild, unhinged life of Andy Warhol's favorite "superstar," Edie Sedgwick, is refashioned in Factory Girl as a tame biopic with little feel for the 1960s New York Underground.Read the full review

The movie ends up feeling superficial and mechanical. Warhol is a cut-and-dried villain rather than a complex individual.Read the full review

We find ourselves wondering about the real story, not this version.Read the full review

Factory Girl is not, strictly speaking, a bad movie. It's something worse: an irredeemably banal drama about some of the most protean, contradictory creative forces of the 1960s.Read the full review