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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 26 Oct 2006

In the end, there's also something distinctly distasteful about a movie in which the central figure casts himself as noble martyr while character-assassinating…

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By Lee Grant (9) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 26 Oct 2006

Based on the nimbly-written, hilarious, moving and terrifying best-selling Augusten Burroughs memoir, it's a tale that incorporates drug addiction,…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 26 Oct 2006

Alas, something happened on the book-to-screen operating table: Yes, Running With Scissors is rich, twisted, insane, mordant and ridiculous,…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 26 Oct 2006

The film trips over its willy-nilly story line and falls on its own blade…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 26 Oct 2006

This film promises black comedy, outrageous effrontery and sizzling satire. And for about 20 minutes it delivers…

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By Bruce Westbrook (223) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 26 Oct 2006

It's one of the most clear-headed -- and twistedly entertaining -- views of drug dependency and insanity I've ever seen…

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By Caroline Kepnes (22) for E! Online (838) on 26 Oct 2006

Director/writer Ryan Murphy covets all things unconventional and eccentric, but when you watch this film, you just feel embarrassed for him…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 26 Oct 2006

Just as the title implies, Running with Scissors falls down and impales itself at nearly every turn. It's one big uh-oh and ouch of a movie…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 26 Oct 2006

Running with Scissors feels like nothing more than one of the many current TV series that appeal to viewers looking for edgy entertainment…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 26 Oct 2006

Someday Annette Bening may find a movie that precisely matches the performance she gives. Unfortunately, Running With Scissors isn't that movie…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 26 Oct 2006

Murphy seems either incapable of or uninterested in creating a recognizable world, so local comic effects count for everything…

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By Bill Muller (519) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Oct 2006

The movie lacks the immediacy of other tales of suburban dysfunction, such as American Beauty, but the performances carry it along swiftly…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 26 Oct 2006

Brilliant performances are not enough to make up for a story that is no deeper than the perky 70's hits on the soundtrack…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 26 Oct 2006

What worked on the page for countless readers feels fey and slight in a film that is as dominated by Bening's performance as this young boy…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 25 Oct 2006

The movie gets the pain of [the author's] story, but it misses the humor that got him through the craziness around him…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Oct 2006

The worst kind of cinematic parable; a self-aware mixture of quirk and depression populated by some of the most oppressively infuriating characters…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 25 Oct 2006

Running With Scissors has one of the most talented casts in any movie you will see this year, led by sure thing Oscar nominee Annette Benning…

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By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 25 Oct 2006

Here is a film so loathsome, so pointless, and so painful to watch that I could only wince as it bounced from scene to scene (or more accurately,…

Review of Running with Scissors (2006)

By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Oct 2006

This dame is as sick as a sick dog on a hot day, if still always perversely amusing, and the story is constructed as a survivor's ordeal, not…

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By Phoebe Flowers (256) for South Florida Sun-Sentinel (746) on 25 Oct 2006

Taken as a whole, Running With Scissors is dysfunction rendered lovingly and gracefully…

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