To do this kind of satire successfully, you need the kind of merciless and unrelenting wit of films such as Gus Van Sant's "To Die For" or John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor."Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
You don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
This film's wise and compassionate view is that, for many young women of limited opportunities, winning a beauty contest represents their best hope.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Burdened with so many poky scenes that it approaches the level of the distributor's "Drowning Mona" and "Whipped," both candidates for the year's worst.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
The tame, confused script eventually sinks the film, although Field shows skill directing actors.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Not one female character escapes mockery or patronizing.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It's a movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend not only disbelief but also intelligence.Read Full Review »
It manages to find an almost pitch-perfect accumulation of ill-matched tones, sheer grotesquerie, near-heroic absurdity and self-canceling folly.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Teeters from a noisy sitcom (only one step removed from "The Beverly Hillbillies") to brickbat satire until it collapses in a pool of redemptive mush.Read Full Review »
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