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(1 - 18) of 18 OFCS Rating: 11% Rotten Page   1   2.5/5 "Summing up a complex human being in two hours is like an MTV spot about Nelson Mandela cut to a Kanye West track. We don't really get to know Sedgwick at all."   CinemaBlend.com   Brian Holcomb C "Sienna Miller embodies Edie Sedgwick with a thoroughly convincing highwire act to match Guy Pierce's incarnation of Andy Warhol in Hickenlooper's perfunctory biopic."   Daily Radar   Cole Smithey "Though the movie makes clear enough that Warhol's gift is vision%u2014he sees and exploits the shifting relationship between truth and fiction%u2014it lacks exactly that."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "For some real insight into the sad demise of "Susan Superstar" read Jean Stein's eye-opening Edie: American Girl, or rent Ciao! Manhattan instead."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2/4 "A spectacle of bad accidents, VH1 aesthetics, sketchy (almost nonexistent) period detail, and armchair psychology."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C+ "Plays like it was dragged kicking and screaming into a traditional biopic structure."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "An old-fashioned poor little rich girl story gussied up with 1960s glitter...as vacuous as the milieu in which it's set."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "The historical Edie Sedgwick was a fascinating figure and at no time was she more interesting than when she was a member of Warhol's Factory. It's too bad Factory Girl fails to make this woman compelling in these circumstances."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "Sienna Miller lights up an otherwise mediocre recounting of the rise and fall of Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth "As a biography of Edie Sedgwick, it's pretty near worthless, but as an evocation of both the glamour and the horror of the Factory, it's as seductive as Andy himself."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox "Hickenlooper gives "Factory Girl" a distinct Warhol look. It's cutting edge without being cluttered."   Light Views   John Larsen B "...Guy Pearce is fabulous as Warhol, delivering a complex portrait of the pop artist as a bundle of contradictions."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "Miller gives a go-for-broke performance as the increasingly desperate and undone Sedgwick. But she lacks the fragile charisma evident in even the coarsest Warhol films, and without it there's no reason to care."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[Miller] barely registers -- she's lightweight in an elemental way. Her utter lack of screen presence is the most monumental thing about her."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/5 "A fascinating public figure is reduced to an uninteresting, unlikeable cliche in this stylish but only fitfully entertaining biopic."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline "George Hickenlooper's impressionistic biopic Factory Girl is a strange little affair, and not a wholly successful one."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 5/10 "Fleeting and superficial, it's the familiar, cliche-riddled show biz rise and fall with banal notes about substance abuse and the price of fame."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 2/4 "Miller bears an uncanny resemblance to Sedgwick and gives a striking, emotionally raw performance that deserves a much more richly imagined and vividly rendered narrative backdrop than the superficial one provided by Factory Girl."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight  (1 - 18) of 18 OFCS Rating: 11% Rotten Page   1