A Hitchcockian Poltergeist meets Single White Female, it's exactly as confused as that sounds, but just as intriguing. Stewart shows she’s now one of the most interesting actresses of her generation.
The film’s strangeness will stay with you and push you to keep on interrogating it.
This is a movie in which brilliance and banality sit side-by-side but one in which Stewart always shines.
Assayas uses horror tropes to comment on the otherwordly nature of celebrity, which gives the film a playful edge and allows Stewart to exorcise the ghost of Twilight once and for all.
Stewart is outstanding as a haunted fashion-biz assistant in Olivier Assayas’s enigmatic ghost story and quarterlife character study.
Personal Shopper is stylishly executed and Stewart’s edgy performance is admirable but the film never quite gels into a convincing whole.
Kristen Stewart delivers her best performance to date in Olivier Assayas’s flawed but fascinating supernatural drama.
A Hitchcockian Poltergeist meets Single White Female, it's exactly as confused as that sounds, but just as intriguing. Stewart shows she’s now one of the most interesting actresses of her generation.
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