Movies   DVD   My Movies  Search Yahoo! Movies:

Movies Home    In Theaters    Showtimes & Tickets    Coming Soon    Top Rated    Trailers & Clips    News    Box Office

The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)   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* Boston Globe Ty Burr "It's a handsome, often funny piece of work with a nearly fatal inability to settle on a tone..." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Gretchen Mol is finally the key to the mysterious appeal of the film, to its sweetness and sadness." more... A- Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt "...a great-looking, ebullient ode to 1950s pinup culture and to the woman at the eye of the industry..." more... B   E! Online "Despite spending nearly two hours with Page, we're still left with myths and little revelation." more... C   Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "...a comedy of high freakishness that invites us to climb deep into the mystique of Bettie Page's image, her phenomenon." more... B+ filmcritic.com Chris Cabin "There is a gaping, obvious problem to this film that holds the key to its ingenuity but also to its ultimate failure: There is no plot, no story." more... C   New York Post Lou Lumenick "Disappointingly skin-deep and almost shockingly wholesome..." more... C   New York Times Manohla Dargis "...exuberant..." more... B+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "...a delightful movie." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "Gretchen Mol...is hot stuff in every sense of the term." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak "For anyone new to the Bettie Page mystique, the film is a primer." more... B- USA Today Claudia Puig "...only scratches the surface of the real-life character and looks superficially at her motivations." 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...)