Maxance Vincent FilmSpeak.net Jul 13, 2025 D+

The movie fails to garner any interest in who Dalí is and why he had such a wild outlook on life and art. If that fails, then everything else inevitably will.

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Andrew Galdi Movie Bitches Apr 24, 2024

I would recommend it, but I don’t think it’ll win Oscars… except for maybe Ben Kingsley

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Milana Vujkov Lola On Film Dec 13, 2023 1/5

Helmed by an otherwise highly inventive director [...] it turned out to be less than the sum of its parts, lacking a developed script and coherent directorial vision, dragging on to its inevitable demise — drowned in a patchwork of trivia.

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Monica Reid Far Out Magazine Nov 29, 2023 2.5/5

An impressive cast, good direction, and eye-catching set design don’t quite make up for a superficial script. Fans of Salvador Dalí’s art will find a few surprises in the film but not a great deal of insight.

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Tara Brady Irish Times Nov 17, 2023 3/5

Squabbling scenes between Kingsley and Sukowa make the enterprise worthwhile, but there are too many exchanges that attempt to shoehorn in backstory and context and even more fudges, most notably around Dalí’s sexual proclivities.

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Tom Shone Sunday Times (UK) Oct 16, 2023 2/5

The film falls foul of the first law of movie bacchanals: the harder a film-maker insists on the enjoyability of a party, the less enjoyable it seems. But Kingsley mesmerises as the grandiloquent, hollow narcissist at the centre of the swirl...

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Wendy Ide Observer (UK) Oct 15, 2023 3/5

The great missed opportunity of this film, with its glossy, handsome design and cinematography, and its genteel orchestral score, is how polite and unadventurous it is – something that could never be said of Dalí himself.

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Jonathan Romney Financial Times Oct 13, 2023 3/5

Dalíland has its moments, but too often, it’s as saggy as a Camembert timepiece.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 12, 2023 2/5

[Kingsley] consistently highlights the movie’s inadequacies via his own incomparable abilities.

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James Saynor The Arts Desk Oct 12, 2023 3/5

[Director Mary Harron's] got a cool eye and a steady hand when people are wielding guns and knives. Perhaps surprisingly, there’s none of that in this enjoyable, jumpier biopic of Salvador Dalí, which features most kinds of human excess save weapon-play.

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Alistair Harkness Scotsman Oct 10, 2023 2/5

Dalíland serves up disappointingly dull late-period biopic of the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí...

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Kat Hughes FILMHOUNDS Magazine Sep 15, 2023 3/5

There is a great performance from Sir Ben Kingsley to revel in.

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Cath Clarke Guardian Sep 5, 2023 3/5

[A] run-of-the-mill drama... with a level of unoriginality that would surely have appalled Dalí as much as spinach.

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Terry Staunton Radio Times Aug 31, 2023 3/5

Kingsley is a convincing Dalí, although for large stretches of the film he's not called upon to do much more than stand around looking enigmatic, while Briney's fresh-faced innocent makes for an effective counterpoint to the chaos around him.

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Carla Hay Culture Mix Jul 29, 2023

Ben Kingsley's performance as Salvador Dalí comes close to being a satirical impersonation. The rest of this drama is underwhelming and makes fascinating real-life people either hollow caricatures or very dull. Too much of Dalíland looks fake.

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John McDonald Australian Financial Review Jul 26, 2023

Dalí’s voyeurism reached such extremes it would have made the Marquis de Sade gasp.

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Philippa Hawker Australian Book Review Jul 20, 2023 3/5

The central performances are strong.

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Michael Calleri Niagara Gazette Jul 19, 2023

In a film about the glow of art, Marcel Zyskind’s cinematography blooms suitably. Alex Mackie’s dynamic editing helps make the pacing a co-star. Director Harron understands completely the world to which Dali belonged and the world over which he presided.

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Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald Jul 14, 2023 4/5

You won’t learn much about Dali’s work but Kingsley and Sukowa seize the chance to exploit the couple’s flair for theatricality in all its forms.

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Cain Noble-Davies FILMINK (Australia) Jul 11, 2023 9.5/20

… reduces a potentially-fascinating story down to its blandest elements, both visually and textually …

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