4/5

Probably the darkest high school film since Heathers, which is no bad thing.

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06/24/06

3.5/5

Solid performances make it work, even if the film seems slightly undernourished.

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06/06/06

N/A

The film is as disturbing as it is amusing, reveling in the hypocrisy of its hopelessly dysfunctional world.

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03/01/07

B-

a dark teen comedy that tries way too hard to be a dark teen comedy

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10/16/05

N/A

The very dark comedy is about the crossing point of righteousness and exploitation.

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10/11/05

3/4

The movie -- a variation on the standard teen comedy -- is quirky and funny, but ever so dark.

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10/07/05

N/A

“Pretty Persuasion” is a formidable effort that shows how powerful, rich, pretty young girls might get their way if they just stop feeling and just start thinking.

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09/30/05

2/4

An often-funny movie that has two dumb ideas for every good one.

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09/29/05

2/4

Good writing aside, this screenplay contained the elements of two different films. One of them might have been quite persuasive.

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09/23/05

1.5/4

Muckrakes in such a convoluted, bizarre way that it threatens to become what it seems to be satirizing: A racist, homophobic, mean-spirited tract.

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09/23/05

3.5/4

Extremely well written in the fearless way of a smarty pants on a roll in the university cafeteria.

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09/23/05

'2/4'

Matches the glossy, calculated kinkiness of a pay-cable television series to a story that unfolds like a Young Adult author's stab at a Bret Easton Ellis novel.

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09/23/05

3/4

Scathing and hilarious social satire.

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09/22/05

B-

A work sufficiently slick and accomplished that you derive a level of pleasure, despite your better instincts.

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09/09/05