Breathless and petite yet powerfully in-your-face, Fisher combines dizzy femininity and no-nonsense verve in the manner of a classic screwball heroine. She's like Carole Lombard reborn as a tiny angel-faced dynamo.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
This movie has no light to shed on the matter. It is its own contradiction: a film about confessions in which nothing much is confessed.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
It glories in its silliness, and the actors are permitted the sort of goofy acting that distinguished screwball comedy. We get double takes, slow burns, pratfalls, exploding clothes wardrobes, dropped trays, tear-away dresses, missing maids of honor, overnight fame, public disgrace and not, amazingly, a single obnoxious cat or dog.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Betsy Sharkey
Though you might wonder whether there's room in a movie marketplace that already feels overstocked with romantic comedies, Confessions of a Shopaholic arrives fashionably late and dressed to kill.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Confessions is no more than a painless time-waster. But the beguiling Fisher is well worth the investment.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: John Anderson
Rebecca may owe everybody for everything, but Fisher definitely owns the movie. She is the only one outside of Ritter who gives a bona fide performance.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
The film's recycled nature is most evident in director P.J. Hogan's attempt to marry the farcical hijinks of an "I Love Lucy" episode to an addiction scenario that would not be out of place in "The Lost Weekend."Read Full Review »
If you spin out the unintended analogy of Confessions of a Shopaholic to the current financial crisis, the film starts to mutate from a not-that-funny comedy into a tragic allegory.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
It has been a long time since I came as close to walking out of a movie as I did with Confessions of a Shopaholic. Not only did I find this production to be irritating, unfunny, and lacking in entertainment value, but I found its underlying slavishness to a culture of consumption to be morally repugnant.Read Full Review »
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