3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] humorous, character-driven documentary....Greenfield's fly on the wall view of obscene wealth punctured like a toy balloon is as current as a blog or a headline."
Box Office 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[I]t's Jackie who steals the show....She has a warm smile, a confiding manner and a sort of 'I Love Lucy' ditziness..."
Chicago Sun-Times "THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, a new documentary by Lauren Greenfield about life on the thin, fragile, sugarcoated top layer of the upper crust, captures the tone of the times with a clear, surprisingly compassionate eye."
New York Times "[T]he film shifts into something profound, a genuine quiet tragedy, as the Siegels are forced to scale back and their pursuit of the American dream starts to look like a kind of infection rather than anything to do with happiness, a compulsion that demands more and more."
Movieline "THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES is a wondrous spectacle, filled with seductive images of luxury and startling images of decay." -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club "[A] succulently entertaining movie that invites you to splash around in the dreams and follies of folks so rich they're the 1 percent of the 1 percent....It becomes a parable of the despair bred by overreach." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly "[A] fresh and intriguing big-screen response to the financial crisis and to the tapped-out REAL HOUSEWIVES materialism-and-melodrama TV template."
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