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Avg. Critic Score: 45 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

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

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    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 full review

  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey

    For Hickenlooper and Mauzner, Sedgwick is more interesting for whom she slept with than who she was. Their movie may indict Warhol for exploiting Sedgwick, but they're just as guilty. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

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

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    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 full review

  • 50
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    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 full review

  • 40
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

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

  • 38
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    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 full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust

    It's more like "That Girl" on speed than anything else. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    The kindest thing to be said about this deluxe photo spread of a film is that Sienna Miller's Edie and Guy Pearce's Andy capture their characters' images and body language with relative precision. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ True story of drugs and sex is for adults only.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this tragic biopic about Edie Sedgwick isn't for kids. Pieced together through scenes of the often-bizarre underground world of Andy Warhol's mid-'60s Factory, it includes graphic images of sex, drinking, drugs, causal nudity, and soft porn. Edie shares memories of incest with her father (starting when she was 8), her brother's suicide, her first time having sex (while at a mental hospital), her parents giving her drugs from a young age, and more. Fashion-crazy teens may be drawn by star Sienna Miller's uncanny resemblance to Sedgwick -- whose iconic fashion sense has given her cult status today. But the movie's language, the characters' decadent debauchery, and, frankly, the extremely depressing story line about a privileged young woman's doomed life make it too much even for teens.
  • Families can talk about the art of Andy Warhol. What message do his images of household items send?
  • Parents should also address Sedgwick's seduction into Warhol's Factory and what was really missing in her life -- a solid ground to call home.
  • How did this affect the direction Sedgwick's life took?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: The price of fame and fortune for Edie was tragic. The frightening experiences she had as a child with her family, mostly her father, always haunted her and influenced her decisions. The movie deals with incest, drug use, exploitive behavior, and more.
  • rolemodels true4 Positive role models: Edie's tragic life is depicted with brutal, disturbing honesty. Nothing redeeming here.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Discussion of Edie's brother hanging himself; visuals of needles poking into bruised, painful skin; a man is told to be rough with Edie sexually while filming.
  • sex false5 Sex: Front and rear nudity; men and women are seen having sex passionately and casually; scenes of soft porn with woman and man in bed in underwear; discussion of when Edie first "made it" incest; implications of junkies having sex with Edie; images of her as a child watching her father have sex with neighbor; woman records sounds of sex and plays them for Warhol.
  • language false5 Language: Frequent uses of "s--t," "f--k," "ass," "c--k," and more.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Pop culture references from the '60s used to establish place and time -- songs, art, etc.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false5 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Constant drinking, smoking (cigarettes and pot), injecting heroin, and popping pills. Edie says that her father pumped her with pills, which enabled them to admit her to the mental hospital.
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