What makes Vox Lux so unique and perhaps even provocative is that it is up to us to establish when, how and in what way exactly her insecurities took over. The most important moments of [...] the whole film - are the ones we don't get to see on the screen

Full Review | Nov 4, 2023

However superbly shot, acted, and well-intentioned its message, Vox Lux remains somewhat puzzling, if admirable for its commitment to unconventionality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Episode 23: Vox Lux / The Guilty / Shoplifters / The Mule / Rififi

Full Review | Original Score: 18/100 | Sep 3, 2021

Despite the film's conversations on violence, art, and the commodification of stars, Corbet does not turn Vox Lux into a sermon on the dangers of fame. It simply observes.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 16, 2021

Natalie Portman stars as a jaded former child star in writer-director Brady Corbet's compelling meditation on the corrosive power of modern pop fame...

Full Review | May 11, 2021

Vox Lux is, just like Celeste and the modern news cycle, kind of depressing, but in a way that's exciting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Vox Lux is a lot of movie.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2021

Ultimately, while interesting, as a look at celebrity culture the last half of Vox Lux is as auto-tuned as the songs the Celeste sings at the end of the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Despite some unneeded narration by Willem Dafoe that gives the film some slight pretension, Vox Lux still manages to be an ambitious masterpiece.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2020

It should be great, and indeed from promotional art and trailers it looks great, but the final production is a crushing disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 9, 2020

Corbet abandons the nuanced development of Celeste for a Lady Gaga-Katy Perry mashup, by way of Jersey Shore.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2020

Trauma is the new ennui. That may sound cynical, but Vox Lux is too amoral to be cynical. It's cold and cruel -- maybe even bitter -- but not cynical.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2020

Not even Portman's solid performance as the pop diva can sustain the unbalanced narrative. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 23, 2020

It's all a bit of a mess, but that's part of the point: tragedy and entertainment are intertwined, and the media ruthlessly exploits suffering for eye-grabbing headlines.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 18, 2020

And as a character study, the film should've let Portman improvise and riff on a predetermined set of topics for each scene.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2020

Natalie Portman sings Sia's songs in this boldly stylised and intellectually ambitious film about pop music.

Full Review | Jun 26, 2020

Fascinating and daring, isolating small bursts of consolation in a deeply upsetting time while asking how enduring joy can exist for kids brought up on relentless heartache.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jun 19, 2020

Vox Lux is an exquisite pop-infused masterpiece that solidifies Portman's status as one of the most daring actors currently working.

Full Review | May 29, 2020

Music is beside the point here. Vox Lux is concerned with the desensitizing powers of idol worship, with all its relevant connections. It understands the lure of escape and questions the effects of that desire.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2020

...there is much to congratulate Brady Corbet's second feature on. These varying grand ambitions, however, never quite harmonise to full effect, leaving VOX LUX feeling more diminuendo than crescendo as it progresses.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2020