Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.
House of Gucci is a lavish, watchable true-crime saga elevated by committed — if uneven — performances, particularly Lady Gaga's fully inhabited Patrizia. Ridley Scott's direction keeps things visually polished with strong Italian location work and period-accurate production design, though the cinematography rarely transcends the glossy. The plot follows the well-worn rise-and-fall biopic arc without major structural invention, and the film struggles with tonal inconsistency — veering between operatic melodrama and broad comedy (particularly Al Pacino and Jared Leto). The ending is serviceable, delivering the inevitable murder and aftermath with reasonable weight but little surprise given the true-story framing. Novelty suffers most: despite its glitzy subject matter, the narrative formula is familiar prestige-biopic territory, and the film doesn't find a distinctly singular voice to set it apart from the genre.