Release dates

August 28, 2018

82 months ago

DVD / Blu-ray

Released

DVD
Aug 28, 2018
82 months ago
Blu-ray
Aug 28, 2018
82 months ago
VOD
Jun 1, 2018
85 months ago
Cinema
May 25, 2018
85 months ago

Mary Shelley release date

The movie Mary Shelley is already released on Cinema, VOD, DVD and Blu-ray in the USA.

Mary Shelley

Movie
55
Passionate and rebellious teenager Mary Wollstonecraft finds a kind...
Passionate and rebellious teenager Mary Wollstonecraft finds a kindred spirit in poet Percy Shelley. Their whirlwind love affair scandalizes polite society, as the young couple gorges on literature and a bohemian life. When tragedy strikes and they lose their baby daughter, Mary finds the courage and bravery to transform her pain into the world's first science fiction novel, Frankenstein - a...
Passionate and rebellious teenager Mary Wollstonecraft finds a kindred spirit in poet Percy Shelley. Their whirlwind love affair scandalizes polite society, as the young couple gorges on literature and a bohemian life. When tragedy strikes and they lose their baby daughter, Mary finds the courage and bravery to transform her pain into the world's first science fiction novel, Frankenstein - all by the age of 18.
55

What the critics say

Based on 24 reviews, Mary Shelley gets an average review score of 55

80/100
hollywoodreporter.com
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Elle Fanning plays the English author of 'Frankenstein' and teenage lover of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in Haifaa Al Mansour’s biopic.

2520d ago

80/100
hollywoodreporter.com
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Elle Fanning plays the English author of 'Frankenstein' and teenage lover of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in Haifaa Al Mansour’s biopic.

2520d ago

70/100
nytimes.com
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This account is plausible and moving, at once a defense of genre fiction and of female creativity. But at times the differences between male and female writers can seem a bit schematic, in a way that undermines Mary’s intellectual autonomy.

2520d ago

70/100
nytimes.com
e1b1cd3b-fdf3-47c6-93ff-e09796bbe9ed

This account is plausible and moving, at once a defense of genre fiction and of female creativity. But at times the differences between male and female writers can seem a bit schematic, in a way that undermines Mary’s intellectual autonomy.

2520d ago

C/A+
thefilmstage.com
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In the end, this drama is admirable in its attempt at shedding light on the creative process of one of the most essential writers in the history of literature, yet it is this process that’s most ignored.

2520d ago

C/A+
thefilmstage.com
e1b1cd3b-fdf3-47c6-93ff-e09796bbe9ed

In the end, this drama is admirable in its attempt at shedding light on the creative process of one of the most essential writers in the history of literature, yet it is this process that’s most ignored.

2520d ago

C/A+
avclub.com
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200 years after Frankenstein, a tired biopic tries to breathe life into Mary Shelley

2520d ago

C/A+
avclub.com
0e5b8d78-1245-4559-9efd-b93d88a1f970

200 years after Frankenstein, a tired biopic tries to breathe life into Mary Shelley

2520d ago

3/5
theguardian.com
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Elle Fanning plays the Frankenstein author in a dutiful drama that’s adequately entertaining but indistinguishable from other similar films within the subgenre

2520d ago

3/5
theguardian.com
0e5b8d78-1245-4559-9efd-b93d88a1f970

Elle Fanning plays the Frankenstein author in a dutiful drama that’s adequately entertaining but indistinguishable from other similar films within the subgenre

2520d ago

5.8/10
ign.com
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A conventional take on a most unconventional woman.

2520d ago

5.8/10
ign.com
0e5b8d78-1245-4559-9efd-b93d88a1f970

A conventional take on a most unconventional woman.

2520d ago

D/A+
theplaylist.net
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Somewhere inside of “Mary Shelley” (which could probably use another edit before its released in cinemas) is a story about a tragic heroine, who channeled her hardship into a monumental work that became an indispensable genre classic.

2520d ago

50/100
variety.com
0e5b8d78-1245-4559-9efd-b93d88a1f970

Elle Fanning stars as the "Frankenstein" author in Haifaa Al-Mansour's disjointed biopic.

2520d ago

2/4
slantmagazine.com
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It abandons its fruitful investigation of belief systems in favor of a simplistic articulation of Mary’s inspiration.

2520d ago

D/A+
theplaylist.net
0e5b8d78-1245-4559-9efd-b93d88a1f970

Somewhere inside of “Mary Shelley” (which could probably use another edit before its released in cinemas) is a story about a tragic heroine, who channeled her hardship into a monumental work that became an indispensable genre classic.

2520d ago

50/100
variety.com
e1b1cd3b-fdf3-47c6-93ff-e09796bbe9ed

Elle Fanning stars as the "Frankenstein" author in Haifaa Al-Mansour's disjointed biopic.

2520d ago

2/4
slantmagazine.com
0e5b8d78-1245-4559-9efd-b93d88a1f970

It abandons its fruitful investigation of belief systems in favor of a simplistic articulation of Mary’s inspiration.

2520d ago

40/100
villagevoice.com
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“Mary Shelley” Desperately Needs the Spark of Life

2520d ago

40/100
villagevoice.com
e1b1cd3b-fdf3-47c6-93ff-e09796bbe9ed

“Mary Shelley” Desperately Needs the Spark of Life

2520d ago

39/100
thewrap.com
e1b1cd3b-fdf3-47c6-93ff-e09796bbe9ed

This ironically lifeless biopic of the “Frankenstein” author seems more interested in judging her life choices than celebrating her genius

2520d ago

39/100
thewrap.com
0e5b8d78-1245-4559-9efd-b93d88a1f970

This ironically lifeless biopic of the “Frankenstein” author seems more interested in judging her life choices than celebrating her genius

2520d ago

1.5/4
rogerebert.com
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Early on in “Mary Shelley,” a muddled biopic about the early 19th-century British teen-ager who would conceive “Frankenstein,” her soon-to-be-lover and future husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, flirtatiously inquires if she is a writer.

2520d ago

1.5/4
rogerebert.com
e1b1cd3b-fdf3-47c6-93ff-e09796bbe9ed

Early on in “Mary Shelley,” a muddled biopic about the early 19th-century British teen-ager who would conceive “Frankenstein,” her soon-to-be-lover and future husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, flirtatiously inquires if she is a writer.

2520d ago

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