| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Melinda Ennis |
"At times poisonously funny, this mean-girl satire succumbs to terminal smugness and an inappropriate ending." more... |
C+ |
Boston Globe
Janice Page |
"...Pretty Persuasion isn't so much awful as it is self-conscious, overdone, shallow, and just not up to the level of its star." more... |
C |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...it isn't very satisfying, because the serious content keeps breaking through the soggy plot intended to contain it." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt |
"...not funny because it's not true." more... |
C- |
| E! Online |
"...comes off as too silly and light to be taken seriously." more... |
D |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"The movie wants so badly to be mentioned in the same breath as Heathers or Election that it's not even funny. Really, I mean it, this charred-black comedy is not even funny." more... |
D- |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"...Pretty Persuasion isn't just another black comedy..." more... |
B+ |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...exploitative and misogynistic..." more... |
C |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
"...Pretty Persuasion is so gleefully nasty that the fact that it was even made and released is astonishing. Much of it is also extremely funny." more... |
B+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"It doesn't take long for the cattily satirical tone to become monotonous as the characters refuse all attempts at development and the plot treads water into the shallows." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...only partly successful." more... |
B- |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"The disingenuous attempt to give the tawdry story some kind of social import only makes the tinny caricatures more insincere..." more... |
D- |
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