| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"Beneath the sappy title, conventional trappings and sometimes heavy-handed message is an absorbing and well-acted film." more... |
B |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...compelling..." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...more observant and thoughtful than we expect." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"Mona Lisa Smile is one of those movies where heart and head clash and neither wins." more... |
C+ |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"Like a boring teacher, Mona Lisa Smile simply fails to tell us anything we don't already know." more... |
C+ |
| E! Online |
"...entirely predictable..." more... |
D |
filmcritic.com
David Levine |
"...though Smile lacks key character development unlike the superior (and similar) Dead Poets Society, it does show a great 1950s period piece." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Self-congratulatory diatribe against '50s conformity..." more... |
C |
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman |
"...Mona Lisa Smile isn't boring, but it is sanctimonious, relentlessly predictable and willfully ignorant of the period it's set in." more... |
C |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
"...a movie that pretends to be audacious." more... |
C+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"If the point of Mona Lisa Smile was to be as bland as possible, it accomplishes the goal." more... |
C |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...insulting swill..." more... |
D |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"Mona Lisa Smile should be moving, but it isn't. We should feel swept up by it, but we don't." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"Julia is not even remotely believable as a '50s character. She's so much a woman of our time..." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"Mona Lisa Smile is more likely to evoke a grimace than a grin." more... |
C |
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