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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 24 Jun 2004

A strangely mixed blessing filled with glossy production values and vibrant supporting performances but suffers mightily from a lack of credibility…

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By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 24 Jan 2004

É um pouco difícil levá-lo a sério, já que sua postura de 'filme-denúncia' soa, no mínimo, anacrônica…

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By Catharine Tunnacliffe (36) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 15 Jan 2004

Considered less as a piece of entertainment and more as an argument constructed to further a feminist agenda, the film is hugely impressive…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 11 Jan 2004

It's arthritic issues and pushy point of view add up to a grade that won't earn anyone here a diploma…

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By Elizabeth M. Tamny (1) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jan 2004

Roberts asks her students rhetorical questions: What makes art good or bad? Who decides…

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By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 05 Jan 2004

Ambiguity [in this film] is the unwitting product of outrageous disorganization, wild ambivalence, and an unerring instinct for, well, error…

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By Stephen Himes (148) for Flak Magazine (34) on 02 Jan 2004

Mona Lisa Smile trades on the complexity of modern art, and the credibility of its artists, to dump reductionist versions of its themes into…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for Long Island Press (211) on 31 Dec 2003

A keen sense of how women have swam through a whole lot of repression and pain back then, to pave the way for females to breeze along through…

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By Timothy Knight (332) for Reel.com (1,232) on 25 Dec 2003

This handsomely mounted and beautifully filmed drama sustains your interest for most of its running time and features fine performances across…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 24 Dec 2003

If you are a fan of Julia Roberts' huge, horse-like head and her equally equine braying laugh, rest assured both are in large supply…

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By Steven Snyder (233) for Zertinet Movies (219) on 24 Dec 2003

We sense the shallowness of the situations,realizing they exist solely to build our expectations and then give us exactly what we want…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 23 Dec 2003

Roberts' character may be presented as a breath of fresh air, but the movie surrounding her is the cinematic equivalent of halitosis…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 23 Dec 2003

OK star vehicle, but nothing more than a switcheroo version of Dead Poets' Society -- right down to a lump-in-the-throat, tear-in-the-eye,…

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By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Dec 2003

What saves the film from its own condescension is director Mike Newell's deft touch and the fine performances of the students -- Julia Stiles,…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 22 Dec 2003

[Mona Lisa Smile] is a well-made, feminist-anchored, politically correct liberal film that teaches some good, modern day lessons to its femme…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Dec 2003

fights battles that were won decades ago... but avoids pat resolutions…

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By Tony Toscano (229) for Talking Pictures (U.S.) (220) on 21 Dec 2003

I found the film for the most part, a good date film - just don't date anyone who is a film critic…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 19 Dec 2003

The movie has a paint-by-numbers script and little more to offer than pretty images. The result is glossy entertainment value but a long way from art…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 19 Dec 2003

Like the turtleneck cashmere sweaters and girdles that tie down these promising women, the movie is trite and trussed…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 19 Dec 2003

[Roberts] is an anachronistic pop-feminist on a mission…

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