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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 07 Dec 2004

Despite the less-than-riveting vibe, it's impossible to deny Dern's amazing performance…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 17 Aug 2004

Offers ample and telling observations on adolescence, mother-daughter relationships, familial tensions, and the erotic yearnings of youth…

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By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 May 2003

Not just another youth movie, but a deft dramatization of a Joyce Carol Oates story adapted by a couple of documentary filmmakers in their…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Jan 2000

The movie is also uncanny in what it does with its last three shots…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Joyce Chopra's independent feature plays uncomfortably like two movies jammed into one: the first is a slow, exaggeratedly naturalistic portrait…

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By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Jul 1994

The shiveringly memorable Smooth Talk may be the first film to get adolescence in America right, down to the last, delicate seismographic tremor…

Review of Smooth Talk (1985)

By Gene Siskel (446) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 08 Jan 1994

Here, as elsewhere, one senses that the images are being asked to carry rather more metaphorical weight than they are able to bear…

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By Bill Cosford (281) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 19 May 1993

SMOOTH TALK is trying to talk to a 1980s generation by using 1960s dialog…

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