The Queen of Versailles

"MASTERFUL. A WICKEDLY FUNNY ALLEGORY ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM..."

-THE HUFFINGTON POST

"JAW-DROPPING, FRIGHTENINGLY HILARIOUS"

-NY POST

"GRADE A. SUCCULENTLY ENTERTAINING"

-Entertainment Weekly

"FOUR STARS. COMPULSIVELY WATCHABLE"

-NY Daily News

"3.5 Stars. Beautifully constructed and frequently uproarious."

-STAR TRIBUNE

"GRADE A! SUCCULENTLY ENTERTAINING. The next big documentary-as-cultural touchstone."

-Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"A SPRAWLING, RICHLY DETAILED STUDY OF AMBITION, DESIRE AND THE WILD SWINGS OF FORTUNE. A gaudy guilty pleasure that is also a piece of trenchant social criticism. If this film is a portrait, it is also a mirror."

-A.O. Scott, NY Times

"**** SPELLBINDING. ATTENTION MUST BE PAID. An appalling, absorbing and improbably affecting portrait."

-Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

"EXCELLENT AND UNEXPECTEDLY NUANCED."

-Sheri Linden, LA Times

"***** STARTLINGLY CANDID. Through a clear lens unclouded by politics or blame, it offers insight into the hazardous American practice of living beyond our means."

-Amy Biancolli, SF Chronicle

"JAW-DROPPING. EYE-OPENING. A FILMMAKING COUP. It combines the soul-revealing artistry of great portraiture and the head-shaking revelations of solid investigative reporting."

-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

"THERE'S MORE GOING ON HERE THAN CLASSIC DERISION. It prompts us to think hard about what, exactly, we believe we’re entitled to."

-Ty Burr, Boston Globe

"Hilarious and upsetting. Like a Theodore Dreiser novel for our time, infused with the vivid, vulgar spirit of reality TV. It’s often laugh-out-loud funny, but also has elements of profound tragedy and allegory."

-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

"DELICIOUSLY APPALLING. Their lives take on a surreal, and eerily fascinating, squalor."

-Joe Morgenstern, Wall St. Journal

"FASCINATING. Director Greenfield has crafted a rather brilliant metaphor for the runaway American dream."

-Claudia Puig, USA Today

"A brilliant metaphor for everything screwed up about the U.S. economy and the culture that shaped it."

-David Edelstein, New York

"RIVETING."

-Whitney Matheson, USA Today

"JAW-DROPPING, FRIGHTENINGLY HILARIOUS."

-Lou Lumenick, NY Post

"**** COMPULSIVELY WATCHABLE."

-Elizabeth Weitzman, NY Daily News

"IRRESISTABLE."

-Leah Rozen, The Wrap

"YOU COULDN'T INVENT A BETTER METAPHOR FOR AMERICA’S ECONOMIC INSANITY."

-Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix

"FASCINATING. What ultimately makes the film so intriguing is Jackie herself."

-Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper

"UNEXPECTEDLY MOVING."

-Sean Burns, Philadelphia Weekly

"OBSCENELY ENTERTAINING."

-Dennis Harvey, SF Bay Guardian

"Hilarious, infuriating, timely and involving. A barbed comedy of manners; an emotionally acute portrait of a marriage and family on the verge of collapse. Regards its all-too-vilifiable subjects with a complexity that should impress viewers of all economic and political persuasions."

-Justin Chang, Variety

"GRIPPING. A minutely observed implosion of the American Dream, packed with pathos over a predicament not commonly associated with the nation’s reviled 1 percent: losing everything because of the shaky economy."

-Chris Lee, The Daily Beast

"The perfect lens through which to view the bursting of the country’s economic bubble."

-Jeremy Matthews, Paste

"MASTERFUL. A wickedly funny allegory about the American dream, greed, and privilege, the film is packed with quotable one-liners and is entertaining and engrossing throughout."

-Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, The Huffington Post

"A sad, funny film, full of the wonder of opulence and the shock of decay."

-Noel Murray, Onion AV Club

"Greenfield’s vision of a strain of nouveau riche both made and broken by imaginary economics stays with you: it's the wake-up call her subjects deserve."

-Karina Longworth, LA Weekly

"An oddly spellbinding, must-see documentary. A portrait of American cluelessness by way of absurd financial irresponsibility, and a cautionary tale about the cost of living an unexamined life."

-Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere

"Fascinating. A revenge fantasy for the 99 percent."

-Daniel Fienberg, Hitfix

"Hilarious – I was captivated. An equal-parts moving and funny post-recession commentary on the American Dream."

-Christie Ko, ScreenCrave

"A compassionate film that still packs a punch."

-Amanda Mae Meyncke, Film.com