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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasMuch of the film is as strange and oddly beautiful as one of Arbus' own photographs, bold in its attempt to find new ways of cracking the biopic chestnut and sensitive in its portrayal of a 1950s woman who, like so many of her contemporaries, finds herself imprisoned in a "Good Housekeeping" nightmare.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis is a Beauty & the Beast romance between Nicole Kidman and Chewbacca.
- 60VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyPicture is impressively crafted and acted but far too narrowly and benignly conceived to satisfy even on its own terms.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversDowney makes something lively, sexy and moving out of a role that's just a thin concept. But the movie feels like it's still in the darkroom.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttFur is a misfire by the talented people who four years ago gave us "Secretary," whose tongue-in-cheek approach might have served this film better, taking the edge off much of its pretensions.
- 50New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe tall, cool Kidman works hard to impersonate a woman possessed, but she's not the type of actress to fill in a role that hasn't been filled in on paper.
- 50The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyWilson and the director, Steven Shainberg, draw on Arbus's family and on many elements from her life and her art, only to turn the material into feeble nonsense.
- 50Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA misguided tribute to the woman his (Shainberg's) film identifies among "the greatest artists of the 20th century."
- 42Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe result is this metabiography that says almost nothing about the great photographer's life or art.
- 16Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanShainberg reduces this most disturbing of all photographers to a portraitist of Halloween.