UPDATED: The reviews are in and they’re quite respectable. So far, it has a 7.9/10 rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 18 reviews logged in. An 82 on Metacritic.
THR, Variety, The Wrap and Deadline loved it. The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and BBC are also fans of “Maestro.”
Others had some issues with it, the mixed-to-positive write-ups come to us from The Daily Beast, Vulture, IndieWire, Screen, Vanity Fair, Film School Rejects, The Playlist and Little White Lies.
Carey Mulligan is being singled out in a lot of these reviews. So is Cooper’s direction, this is only his second film as a director after 2018’s “A Star Is Born,” which also premiered at Venice.
EARLIER: I can’t really figure out what the consensus on “Maestro” will be. Reactions have been all over the place this morning at Venice. It sounds like very classicist filmmaking, an old-school affair. Cooper and, especially, Mulligan are being praised for their performances. Until the embargo breaks, here are some of the Letterboxd reviews. As you can see, some were disappointed and others were enthralled. I’ll update this post when reviews start trickling in around three hours.