Effie Gray (2014)

Effie Gray: Directed by Richard Laxton. With Dakota Fanning, Polly Dartford, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge. A look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), his teenage bride Euphemia “Effie” Gray (Dakota Fanning), and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).

“As dull as ditchwater and just as affecting. Almost completely pointless, and with some bizarre casting – the man they have playing Millais looks more like Rossetti! Nothing about the Pre-Raphaelites, and Ruskin is portrayed as a stuck-up idiot, which makes it painful to watch. Effie Gray herself is portrayed as a woman with no agency of any kind, and thereu0026#39;s none of the scandal she created shown. No entertainment value whatsoever. Avoid.”