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Holy Smoke! (1999)

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Reviews Counted:73

Fresh:32

Rotten:41

Average Rating:5.6/10

Consensus: Superb performances hindered by weak script and incoherent story.

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: In this wildly inventive film from director Jane Campion (THE PIANO), Kate Winslet stars as Ruth, a headstrong Australian woman determined to get back to India in time to join a group marriage to... [More]

Starring: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Sophie Lee, Tim Robertson

Director: Jane Campion

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Reviews for Holy Smoke!

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Tomatometer	Critic	Review	Category
N/R	Derek Adams	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jun., 24 2006 04:12 AM	Time Out
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Dec., 12 2002 08:25 AM	Empire Magazine
N/R	Rich Cline	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Dec., 10 2001 06:32 PM	Shadows on the Wall
	Stella Bruzzi	It is an immense, emotional, engrossing film that nevertheless wears its brilliance casually. Full Review \| Comment \| Apr., 17 2001 04:41 PM	Sight and Sound
2/4	Ian Waldron-Mantgani	Here is a movie that promises to be a drama about two passionate people waging intellectual war on each other, but disintegrates into a bizarre mixture of Ticket to Heaven, Last Tango in Paris, Klute and Coneheads. Full Review \| Comment \| Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM	UK Critic
8/10	Tim Brayton	A profoundly generous treatise on how men and women misunderstand and torment one another. Full Review \| Comment \| Aug., 27 2009 02:51 AM	Antagony & Ecstasy
N/R	David Rooney	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jun., 17 2008 03:15 AM	Variety
3/5	Rob Gonsalves	Jane Campion is busily dismantling gender myths that few people take seriously any more. Full Review \| Comment \| Sep., 17 2007 06:57 PM	eFilmCritic.com
N/R	Andrew Sarris	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Apr., 27 2007 03:15 AM	New York Observer
3/5		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Dec., 06 2005 08:05 PM	Film Threat
N/R		Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Jul., 21 2005 03:59 AM	Houston Chronicle
B+	Robin Clifford	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Apr., 09 2005 04:10 AM	Reeling Reviews
N/R	Stuart Klawans	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Mar., 03 2005 10:16 PM	Nation
B-	Philip Martin	It's too bad that such an artist of such obvious ambition and power seems inclined to dismiss the greater part of humanity... Full Review \| Comment \| Jan., 27 2005 12:02 PM	Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
2/4	Jeanne Aufmuth	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| May., 14 2003 05:12 PM	Palo Alto Weekly
3/5	Ron Wells	Filmmaker Jane Campion has displayed genius, passion, insight, and self-indulgence in her work. Now, she reveals a sense of humor. Full Review \| Comment \| Dec., 08 2002 08:28 AM	Film Threat
1/4	Margaret A. McGurk	[A] blithering mess of a story. Full Review \| Comment \| Oct., 15 2002 08:19 AM	Cincinnati Enquirer
4/5	Kevin Thomas	At once hilarious and serious, cruel and tender, and bristling with vitality, Holy Smoke is the right movie for the millennium, envisioning new possibilities in the way people view and relate to one another. Full Review \| Comment \| Aug., 15 2002 08:17 AM	Los Angeles Times
2.5/4	Jay Carr	No review available. Comment \| Jun., 18 2002 08:15 AM	Boston Globe
2/4	Rick Groen	Nice try, but there's not a laugh in sight. Full Review \| Comment \| Apr., 05 2002 08:13 AM	Globe and Mail

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