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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 27 Jan 2009

Newton's a radiant beam of beguiling star power in this stylish muddle…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Oct 2008

Gave me a craving for something nouvelle, not a half-hearted Hollywood co-optation…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 30 Jan 2008

A sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original…

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By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 01 Nov 2007

Demme's movie is so benign--he likes all his characters, even the villains--it feels like a game of let's pretend…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 03 May 2006

Demme can't sustain the fizz, but seeing a real filmmaker try and fall short is still more fun than watching a hack hit the mark…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Oct 2005

Dazzlingly nimble and light on its feet, this breezy but densely textured love letter to modern, multicultural Paris in the guise of a romantic…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 05 Jul 2005

The trouble with The Truth About Charlie is that it really is after the truth about Charlie, a character we could hardly give a damn about…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Apr 2004

If Wahlberg in a beret is your idea of fun, don't let me get in your way…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 Feb 2004

Newton may not be a great actor, either, but she's full of life and charm. She's the only thing holding this movie together at all…

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By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 18 Aug 2003

Apaixonado por sua própria 'sabedoria' ao transformar esta refilmagem em uma homenagem à nouvelle vague, Demme cria um filme irritante e…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Jul 2003

Though indisputably a thriller, Charlie abandons itself to little cinematic rhapsodies, self-reflexive asides, and montages of Paris locations…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 16 Jan 2003

I realize that Mark Wahlberg is not Cary Grant, but shouldn't there be some compensating reason for his presence in this movie…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 07 Dec 2002

Does briefly sizzle in the scenes between Newton and French actress Christine Boisson, as the bisexual French police commander assigned to the case…

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By Paul Matwychuk (19) for Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) (665) on 29 Nov 2002

Never do you get the feeling that anybody is in any real danger, or that there's any real attraction between Newton and Wahlberg-and when you're…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 20 Nov 2002

The truth about Charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project…

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By Nicolas Lacroix (105) for Showbizz.net (25) on 12 Nov 2002

Jonathan Demme nous revient avec un film qui se cherche, à l'instar du personnage-titre, une identité…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 09 Nov 2002

Demme's film looks very French, and appears as appetizing as a croissant…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 06 Nov 2002

May not be and should not be everyone's cup of tea, but at the end of it, I felt a guilty affection for all its participants…

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By Wade Major (240) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 03 Nov 2002

Donen's playful spirit, his giddy sense of fun, is sorely lacking…

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By Ross Anthony (612) for Hollywood Report Card (612) on 02 Nov 2002

Somewhere in the middle, the film compels, as Demme experiments he harvests a few movie moment gems, but the field of roughage dominates…

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