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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 31 Oct 2018

A mess of a gay best friend, played brilliantly by Richard E…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 31 Oct 2018

The movie lets Israel have the last laugh, deliciously so…

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By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for San Diego CityBeat (181) on 31 Oct 2018

McCarthy's effortlessly ornery performance proves yet again that she's capable of shifting between comedy and drama at a moment's notice…

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By Christopher Lloyd (287) for The Film Yap (559) on 31 Oct 2018

Melissa McCarthy convincingly transforms into a woman with all rough edges in this comedy about a literary forger that's black as pitch…

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By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 30 Oct 2018

It would be a cautionary tale if it wasn't also damnably sentimental in the peculiar vein of media accounts that seek to justify the behavior…

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By Teo Bugbee (199) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Oct 2018

As Lee, McCarthy offers a committed, slightly corny case for the dramatic viability of her post-Bridesmaids superstardom…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 30 Oct 2018

Grant is the cinema’s favorite gay British best friend, and he makes a wonderfully louche lush as Jack Hock, Israel’s only friend…

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By Becky Kukla (19) for Culturess (85) on 29 Oct 2018

Marielle Heller's second feature film is, like her first, filled with complex and intriguing characters who are presented to us as just that…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 27 Oct 2018

An uncommonly fascinating character study of the kind of person that most people pray that they never come into contact with under any circumstances…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 27 Oct 2018

Given the slam-bang slapstick featured in so many of her movies, I have to admit the subtlety and fullness of [McCarthy's] performance in this…

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By David Ehrenstein (46) for Los Angeles Blade (5) on 26 Oct 2018

Melissa McCarthy's turn at the serious bat in Can You Ever Forgive Me? is something quite special…

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By Sarah Gopaul (223) for Digital Journal (223) on 25 Oct 2018

[McCarthy] fits quite comfortably in the skin of a homely cat lady with a knack for unsolicited ghostwriting, spewing sarcasm and radiating…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 25 Oct 2018

Engaging from start to finish. (Full Content Review for Parents - Profanity, Sexual Content, etc. - also Available)…

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By Fico Cangiano (235) for CineXpress (235) on 25 Oct 2018

Melissa McCarthy gives the performance of her career, while Richard E. Grant is outstanding. One of the best cinematic duos of the year…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 25 Oct 2018

The one thing this film can't do is give us a reason to like Lee Israel…

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By Dmitry Samarov (14) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Oct 2018

McCarthy and Grant are both note-perfect in their portrayal of two people at the end of their rope who have no business being friends, or getting…

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By Simon Houpt (42) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 24 Oct 2018

Coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival last month, critics were touting McCarthy as an Oscar nominee…

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By André Hereford (101) for Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) (190) on 24 Oct 2018

McCarthy is a mighty convincing curmudgeon…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 24 Oct 2018

There's a sense in which the author, who wrote a book about her adventures and died a few years ago at the age of 75, gets the last laugh,…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 24 Oct 2018

There's more to Lee than her personality and her crimes, but McCarthy, the screenplay, and director Marielle Heller never try to turn the character…

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