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Secretary (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...more silly than salacious, more ingratiating than ground-breaking." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "The director, Steven Shainberg, has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters..." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "...though I would agree it's original...it's not an experience I much enjoyed." more... C- Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "...deserves applause for doing something most movies avoid these days..." more... B   E! Online "...this is a great bizarre love story..." more... B+ Film Journal International Erica Abeel "A dark fairy tale spiked with humor..." more... B+ Film Threat Merle Bertrand "...weirdly compelling..." more... B   filmcritic.com Blake French "The film loses the battle for the third act, but it easily wins the overall war." more... B+ Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis "...a gently bent old-fashioned romance about two people who are so ideally suited for each other that they seemed doomed to never get it together." more... B+ New York Post Megan Turner "...an oddly compassionate - and often very funny - tale of an emotionally symbiotic affair." more... B   New York Times Stephen Holden "...a small groundbreaking comedy..." more... A- ReelViews James Berardinelli "The movie enters a realm where few non-porn films venture, and comes across as darkly funny, energetic, and surprisingly gentle." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "... a film of startling humor and feeling." more... A- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...the disappointing spawn of two excellent writers." more... D+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...one of the best of a growing strain of daring films..." more... B+ Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez "...may fray some feminist nerves..." more... B- USA Today Mike Clark "...too original to be ignored." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)