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By Cynthia S (730) on 16 Jun 2011

A movie from the 2008 Seattle Film Festival List. This one is about a young girls trouble life and adventures…

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By James C (2,975) on 02 May 2011

This movie was awesome and amazing to see what this women went through will make you quiver. Life should never be this hard for anyone…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 02 May 2011

Cruelly, the display of sorrow never takes command, with most of the film an unsatisfactory soap opera that never seizes an illuminating essence…

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By Maridia B (153) on 30 Apr 2011

Frailty shmailty. I'd rather watch a flick about Femme Fatale or a sequel to the Powerpuff Girls' movie…

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By Kristal C (562) on 28 Apr 2011

Yet another story written by a man about a woman's journey in which she is raped, beaten, prostitutes herself, becomes a convenient lesbian…

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By Thomas W (1,104) on 28 Apr 2011

Jessica Chastain is beautiful and has some skills. That is actually all I need to say about the movie…

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By Marcy Dermansky (134) for About.com (1,470) on 21 Nov 2010

Chastain has long red hair, wide eyes, and an even wider smile. She is Jolene, of course, and she is appealing…

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By Whitney V (14) on 13 Nov 2010

Awsome.... Jessica Chastain gives a multi layered, complex, superlative performance as the title character…

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By Gianluca F (35) on 13 Nov 2010

Awsome.... Jessica Chastain gives a multi layered, complex, superlative performance as the title character…

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By Michael H (3,299) on 06 Nov 2010

Perfect movie. Jessica Chastain is the find of the century…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Nov 2010

More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, Jolene remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles…

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By Glenn Heath Jr. (311) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Oct 2010

Jolene's main themes, including the manipulation of youth, the fragility of love, and the suppression of individuality, try to carry the wonky…

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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Oct 2010

They don't make movies like Jolene anymore, and that's a good thing…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 29 Oct 2010

The tone veers wildly, from wacky indie to melodramatic soap opera…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 28 Oct 2010

So bad it's almost (but not quite) good, Dan Ireland's Jolene is an unusually elaborate and excruciatingly long vanity production based on…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 28 Oct 2010

Jolene's skin may smell like warm milk to Brad, but to the rest of us it has curdled long before she leaves his bed…

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By Armond White (604) for New York Press (561) on 26 Oct 2010

Downplaying Doctorow's condescending literary and class ironies, Ireland creates something more like a queer-inflected Candide…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 26 Oct 2010

You go away exhilarated…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Movieline (883) on 26 Oct 2010

Chastain, an incandescent redhead with a heart-shaped face and round, shining eyes, does more justice to the part than it deserves…

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By Nick Schagaer (3) for Village Voice (8,525) on 26 Oct 2010

Throughout, Chastain delivers a full-bodied debut performance, but she's ultimately stuck taking her wandering-soul protagonist far more seriously…

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