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Maps To The Stars
A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
1934, Shanghai, China
9 March 1997, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
4 April 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
26 July 1968, Camden Town, London, England, UK
30 October 1960, Montréal, Québec, Canada
13 May 1986, Barnes, London, England, UK
21 October 1956, Burbank, California, USA
February 29, 2016
Bitterly comedic but utterly sad.
November 12, 2015
We watch to see the worst in Maps, it's revealed, and absolutely nothing about it is surprising. (Even the ghosts are predictable.) Also, unforgivable in the inside-Hollywood canon, Wagner can't craft dialogue or be funny to save his life.
December 18, 2015
There's a cruel honesty to it all that's engrossing, when it's not grossing.
June 18, 2016
So here's a mean, nasty little piece of work - and I have a feeling director David Cronenberg would take that as the compliment it's intended to be.
December 31, 2015
Really this is more a barrel of fish than of monkeys - mostly a jaded movie-industry satire (in a cameo, Carrie Fisher plays herself), but also, being Cronenberg, a horror film, full of ghost stories and little monsters.
March 02, 2015
According to Cronenberg, the script for "Maps to the Stars," by Bruce Wagner, began life more than twenty years ago, and it shows.
June 06, 2016
Something of a fascinating misfire, still shot and edited with the precise authority that has defined Cronenberg's recent period, but jumbled in the search for narrative control and originality.
March 05, 2015
This isn't a lousy film; it's a mediocre, ugly film about lousy people.
February 27, 2015
Although it's been dismissed in some quarters as minor Cronenberg-and criticized for "getting Hollywood wrong," or something-it's a sneakily powerful movie.
February 27, 2015
There are scads of scabrous inside-Hollywood psychodramas, but never a festering pyre on the order of David Cronenberg and Bruce Wagner's Maps to the Stars. What a hyperfocused duo of ghouls!
March 05, 2015
"Maps to the Stars" loses some steam near the end, and its resolution has the predetermined quality of Greek tragedy writ small. Still, I found it (as the Replacements song says) sadly beautiful.
March 05, 2015
Hollywood has been disemboweling itself since... Sunset Boulevard and The Bad and the Beautiful, but those movies seem like Cream of Wheat compared to Cronenberg's wicked vision.
