Review of Birthday Girl (2002) by Jeffrey Westhoff for Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) — 09 Jun 2003

Chaplin's performance is the only present Birthday Girl offers.

This review of Birthday Girl (2002) was written by Jeffrey Westhoff and published by Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) on 09 Jun 2003.

Birthday Girl has generally received mixed reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

Birthday Girl (2002) Movie Reviews (249)
Birthday Girl (2002) Critic Reviews (62)
Birthday Girl (2002) User Reviews (187)

More Reviews of Birthday Girl

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 17 Mar 2010

Kidman accomplishes a remarkable feat of transformation, adopting not only an accent, but a slightly seedy, faintly feral demeanor that almost…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Angelina C (374) on 10 Oct 2012

A quirky black comedy. Good but not great…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Howie V (37) on 18 Jan 2011

No one plays the femme fatale as well as Nicole Kidman. She just does it so naturally…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Aug 2016

Black comedies are rare enough. Birthday Girl is a member of an even rarer species, the black romantic comedy…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Frances H (1,591) on 30 Aug 2015

I didn't really care much about this movie…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Ruben A (240) on 18 Apr 2011

Hmm I like this film...I don't understand why it didn't have that much success...I thought it was going to be a chick flic but was very wrong…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Jim H (1,089) on 12 Nov 2010

For the first forty-five minutes of this film, I liked it better when it was called Derailed. At least that had Clive Owen in it…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Tom G (847) on 06 Apr 2012

Birthday Girl starts out as a rom-com and ends up trying to be a thriller - that is when it goes downhill…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By The Critic ( (601) on 10 Aug 2012

An amusing premise fails to translate very well to the screen, though the cast deliver good performances and keep the proceedings watchable…

Read Review

Review of Birthday Girl (2002)

By Pinattar (48) on 07 Jul 2012

An alright movie that shows the acting abilities of Nicole Kidman and Vincent Cassel…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Love Story (1970)

By Critiquegirl (59) on 04 Mar 2011

Love is never having to say I am going to make you watch this movie. Honestly, one of the worst ever…

Read Review

Review of Dying Young (1991)

By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 19 Feb 2004

One of those useless bits of goop manufactured exclusively for decades of replay on Lifetime…

Read Review

Review of Griffin & Phoenix (2006)

By Jenny E (35) on 11 Feb 2009

Imaginen un gran viaje a la ciudad, imaginen un cansado regreso en camion, imaginen una horripilante pelicula cursi y sentimental en un pantalla…

Read Review

Review of Big Fish (2003)

By Jackshrack (1) on 02 Nov 2010

This was a fairly trite and predictable story in my view. A real dissapoint after watching Edward scissorhandy…

Read Review

Review of Lullaby (2014)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jun 2014

Rarely has the terminal seemed as interminable as it does in Lullaby…

Read Review

Review of The Midwife (2017)

By Dan Callahan (211) for TheWrap (3,203) on 18 Jul 2017

The bothersome and irritating thing about the way The Midwife is written is that we keep hearing detail after detail and story after story…

Read Review

Review of The Elementary Particles (2006)

By Dawn M (161) on 23 Dec 2007

Disjointed and random scenes that never come to fruition. Interesting characters that are never given proper direction through script. Disappointing…

Read Review

Review of Medicine Man (1992)

By Alex W (1,471) on 01 Aug 2016

spoilers ok so at the end in there attempt to stop the forest from being buldozed which would have takend weeks they cause a fire that bured…

Read Review

Review of Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)

By Lee M (4,001) on 25 Jun 2008

One giant shrug. Most of the characters just end up being horrible people and you're sort of waiting for them to die…

Read Review

Review of Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 31 Dec 1997

Another French film that fairly glitters with photographic and cinematic style, yet fails to do more than skim the surface of a cryptic dramatic…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2014

79%1,167 Reviews

Deadpool

2016

78%1,333 Reviews

Terrifier 2

2022

64%48 Reviews

Bullet Train

2022

66%170 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Blade Runner 2049

2017

80%2,332 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Birthday Girl

2002

59%249 Reviews

Blazing Saddles

1974

77%714 Reviews

Because of Winn-Dixie

2005

63%410 Reviews

Free State of Jones

2016

64%765 Reviews

Dan in Real Life

2007

66%769 Reviews

Woman in Gold

2015

69%771 Reviews

The Shallows

2016

61%1,058 Reviews

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

1985

53%183 Reviews

My Bloody Valentine

1981

60%407 Reviews

Singles

1992

68%501 Reviews