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By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 08 Feb 2002

The movie isn't that funny when John and Nadia are pulling off their awkward courtship dance and it goes completely flat in its thriller aspirations…

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By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 06 Feb 2002

Terrific as Nadia, a Russian mail-order bride who comes to America speaking not a word of English, it's Kidman who holds the film together…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 04 Feb 2002

Birthday Girl is an actor's movie first and foremost…

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By Andrew Manning (122) for Radio Free Entertainment (122) on 04 Feb 2002

Completely predictable from beginning to end, but Nicole Kidman brings the goods…

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By Joe Leydon (915) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 03 Feb 2002

Birthday Girl may be intended as a romantic thriller, but it is sorely lacking in romance and thrills…

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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 03 Feb 2002

A pleasant and engaging enough sit, but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Fantastica Daily (363) on 01 Feb 2002

If you ever wanted to see Nicole Kidman buck naked and tied to the bedposts, then Birthday Girl is your gift…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 01 Feb 2002

Kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in Birthday Girl, a film by the stage-trained Jez Butterworth (Mojo) that serves as yet…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 01 Feb 2002

It's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between Chaplin and Kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking, but humming…

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By Gene Seymour (406) for Newsday (2,345) on 01 Feb 2002

Given a smaller frame and literally darker shades to work with than she's accustomed to, Kidman is friskier, livelier and arguably more engaging…

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By Nick Carter (25) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 01 Feb 2002

The film's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling…

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By David Levine (71) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 01 Feb 2002

Neither Chaplin's character nor the movie itself bear the slightest amount of common sense…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Feb 2002

A curious film: for a purported comedy-thriller, it's not very funny, and it generates remarkably little suspense...Mostly it's a shambling bore…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 01 Feb 2002

One of those all-too-rare instances where the film would have been in better hands if it had been produced by a major Hollywood studio instead…

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By Ellen Kim (17) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 31 Jan 2002

Birthday Girl conspicuously shifts between a semiromance, semicomedy and semicrime thriller, which dilutes the best of its parts and results…

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By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 31 Jan 2002

While Birthday Girl isn't likely to rank among 2002's most memorable films, there's more than enough entertainment here to warrant a visit…

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By Steve Schneider (315) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 31 Jan 2002

[W]ith director/co-writer Jez Butterworth (Mojo) so determined to craft a romance and a thriller that he abandons logic…

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By Philip Wuntch (283) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 31 Jan 2002

The creators of Birthday Girl could optimistically advertise that they give viewers two movies for the price of one…

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By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (910) on 30 Jan 2002

Nicole Kidman makes it a party worth attending…

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By Eleanor Ringel Gillespie (205) for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (910) on 30 Jan 2002

Nicole Kidman makes it a party worth attending…

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