- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- September 11, 2020 (4 years ago)
- Language
- English
- Origin
- United States
- Production companies
- Killer Films · Los Angeles Media Fund
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
Shirley

Where to watch (United States)
Cast
Elisabeth MossShirley Jackson
Odessa YoungRose Nemser / Paula
Michael StuhlbargStanley Hyman
Logan LermanFred Nemser
Victoria PedrettiKatherine
Robert WuhlRandy Fisher
Paul O'BrienDean
Orlagh CassidyCaroline
Bisserat TseggaiPeggy
Allen McCulloughNorman
Tony MannaDrunken Fellow
Molly FaheyFaculty Wife
Edward O'BlenisRalph Ellison
Ryan SpahnDrunk Cad
Emily DeckerPrissy College Girl
Alexandria ShermanPaula
Ava LangfordRose's Friend
Thomas RacekParty Guest
Lexa HayesParty Goer
Crew
Reviews
[Review] ‘Shirley’ Depicts Unraveling of Acclaimed Horror Author in Spellbinding Psychodrama With a title like Shirley and Elisabeth Moss featured as acclaimed horror author Shirley Jackson, the default expectation is that this film would be a period...
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Elisabeth Moss or ‘Shirley’ - The Boston Globe In Josephine Decker’s fictionalized drama, author Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) fights for dominance with her professor husband (Michael Stuhlbarg) whil...
‘Shirley’ review: Elisabeth Moss scores again as author Shirley Jackson In this twisted psychological drama, the horrors aren’t limited to the page for the writer of ‘The Lottery’ — successful, depressed and married to a ...
Film Review: Shirley ★★★☆☆ From a script by Sarah Gubbin – who adapted a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell – whose story was based on the prolific...
Elisabeth Moss again outshines the movie as a troubled writer in ‘Shirley’ “Shirley” is a strange, gothic look at “The Haunting of Hill House” author Shirley Jackson.
Elisabeth Moss' Shirley Offers Subtle, Mesmerizing Madness: Review In Hulu's Shirley, Josephine Decker bends reality to explore femininity and artistic creation through the life of author Shirley Jackson.
Review: Elisabeth Moss burns up the screen as writer Shirley Jackson 'Shirley' showcases another in a run of terrific performances from 'The Handmaid's Tale' actress.
Shirley Filmmaker Josephine Decker returns with a daring biopic of author Shirley Jackson, starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg. Read the Empire review.
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Elisabeth Moss goes gloriously demented in literary biopic 'Shirley' Biopics of literary icons rarely inspire the most adventurous of filmmaking, but then again, the genre had never met Josephine Decker.
‘Shirley’: Film Review Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg play horror author Shirley Jackson and her academic husband in Josephine Decker's unusual biographical portrait, 'Shirley.'
Shirley is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of the famed Gothic writer – review Its director, Josephine Decker, is aiming for something far more ambitious than the traditional biopic
‘Shirley’ Review: Elisabeth Moss Is Shirley Jackson in a Feverish Psychodrama About Female Identity Sundance: Josephine Decker follows "Madeline's Madeline" with a thrillingly delirious film about Shirley Jackson's poisoned writing process.
"Shirley" Is 2020's Most Surprisingly Timely Movie "Shirley" fictionalizes the life of Shirley Jackson to explore femininity writ large. Starring Elisabeth Moss, it's now streaming on Hulu.
Shirley Shirley isn’t a masterful film, but it suggests that Decker has one in her.
Review: 'Shirley,' with Elisabeth Moss as Shirley Jackson, is a cunning psychological brew Elisabeth Moss stars as writer Shirley Jackson with Michael Stuhlbarg and Odessa Young in Josephine Decker's ingenious anti-biopic "Shirley."
Shirley review – A bewitching biography of Shirley Jackson Josephine Decker’s stunning anti-biopic of author Shirley Jackson offers a treatise on female creativity and camaraderie.
“Shirley” Takes a One-Sided View of Its Subject The film coats the author Shirley Jackson in gothic excess as if glazing a ham, and of her humor scarcely a shred remains.
‘Shirley’ review: Boring, East Coast academics have problems, too It’s hell with foliage.
‘Shirley’ Is a Sexy, Scary Fire Fueled by Elisabeth Moss and Her Co-Stars The film fires off lines about writing and domesticity as if they were rounds from a howitzer.
Shirley movie review & film summary (2020) Moss and Stuhlberg, sharing long intense glares across the table as Fred and Rose chit-chat, seem, at times, like two trolls under a bridge, lying in wait fo...
Movie Review: Moss cuts and corrodes all she surveys as “Shirley” Oh, to fall under the murderous gaze of horror novelist and short story icon Shirley Jackson and survive. That’s how Elisabeth Moss makes one feel about li...
'Shirley' Review: Who's Afraid of Shirley Jackson? 'Shirley' turns the life of author Shirley Jackson into 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' 2.0—bravo to Elisabeth Moss, says Peter Travers.
‘Shirley’: Berlin Review Elisabeth Moss puts in a braruva performance as troubled real-life writer Shirley Jackson
'Shirley' Review: Elisabeth Moss Is Phenomenal In Josephine Decker's Stellar Portrait Of Shirley Jackson [Sundance 2020] - SlashFilm Elisabeth Moss is brilliant as Shirley Jackson in Josephine Decker's haunting Shirley.
Elisabeth Moss is magnificent in screw-loosening alt-biopic Shirley Elisabeth Moss is given a lot of rope, but doesn’t hang herself, in this alt-biopic about the American horror writer, Shirley Jackson. The latter used to r...
Biopic fails to capture author's boldness This well-meaning fictionalised portrait of horror writer Shirley Jackson, played by Elisabeth Moss, fails to live up to its subject.
'Shirley' Is an Unconventional Biopic About a Horror Master A new movie out on Hulu gives the writer Shirley Jackson the unsettling and incisive cinematic treatment she deserves.
Sundance Review: Shirley Finds Elisabeth Moss on a Literary Path of Liberation After getting attention on the festival circuit with her back-to-back first features Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch, director Josephine De...
'Shirley': Josephine Decker Captures a Fragile Mind [Sundance Review] The 'Madeline's Madeline' director crafts a masterful adaptation of Susan Scarf Merrell’s novel, based on the life of author Shirley Jackson.
Shirley is a gothic drama about Shirley Jackson’s haunted life Told in the style of a Shirley Jackson story
'Shirley' Film Review: Elisabeth Moss Has Monstrous Presence in Unconventional Drama Director Josephine Decker uses a concoction of fact and magical realism in this bio-fiction about writer Shirley Jackson
Elisabeth Moss Is a Strange and Brilliant Author in 'Shirley' Playing a fictionalized version of the eccentric author Shirley Jackson, Moss melts into her disguise
Elisabeth Moss and Carey Mulligan Dazzle in Two Sundance Smashes Shirley and Promising Young Women showcase a pair of razor-sharp performances.
‘Shirley’: Film Review Reality-bending indie director Josephine Decker proves the perfect match for this playful psychological study of novelist Shirley Jackson.
The great writer of dread, Shirley Jackson, finally gets a movie that befits her legacy Elisabeth Moss stars in the eerie Shirley as a fictionalized version of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers — and it feels like a story Jackson wo...
Shirley Is a Woozy Portrait of an Underappreciated Writer Elisabeth Moss is terrific, as usual, in this dizzying film about The Haunting of Hill House author Shirley Jackson — now available on Hulu and VOD.
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