Again the critics got it wrong. Mind-boggling because my opinion this is been the best version yet.. this film brought several aspects that I was unaware of as the difficulty she had trying to publish.. this movie had my attention the whole time and at no point did I get the inclination to fast forward, which is been a bad habit I've been developing recently.. :-)

I can't understand the bad reviews. This is a wonderful movie. I loved everything about this movie. It was filmed with great attention to detail. If you love art then this is a movie you'll love. Very well done. Elle Fanning does a fantastic job. It's the first time I've seen a movie that gives credit to the writer of Frankenstein. Fabulous! I've been in the movie industry for over 50 years. This was very well done.

Brilliant acting by Elle Fanning. Incredible range of feelings and emotions. A demonstration of a powerful young woman, with the power to write about what she saw and felt in the world. Director Haifaa al-Mansour did a brilliant job of capturing the feeling of Frankenstein in the weather and in demonstrating a woman author who would not be harnessed or silenced.

It has its moments and looks great. But creator of "Frankenstein" deserves a better film than this Romantic soap opera.

The director and her star make their point under the meticulously appointed cover of the film's 18th-century setting, but they make it plainly, cleanly, and with fire.

Mary Shelley isn't a perfect movie...But the movie performs an important task: It gets people eager to learn more about Shelley, one of the most fascinating women in English history.

Interesting but uneven drama about famous female author.

... succeeds as a portrait of an independent spirit who ultimately achieved greatness too early and recognition too late.

Celebrates Mary Shelley for the trailblazing woman that she is, but hews far too close to convention to truly represent her life.

As the first female filmmaker in her native land of Saudi Arabia, and a controversial figure in her own right, it is clear that Al-Mansour was born to bring Mary Shelley's story to the big screen.

A reminder that England in the early 19th century remains a rich repository of stories and characters, and era that can be made to feel charmingly quaint and bracingly modern, on both the page and the screen.

Overlong but generally well-cast, well-acted and handsomely mounted Shelley biopic

The costumes and cinematography make the movie visually romantic, and hopefully the movie will cause more people to seek out Mary Shelley's work.

As a biographical film on Frankenstein's author-here played with spirited fire by Elle Fanning-it takes a very, very conventional path to track a most unconventional life.

A welcome showcase for the considerable talents of Elle Fanning, who deftly shades the trials and tribulations of the young writer and her complicated relationship with Percy Shelley