All heart and has the best intentions in the world, but what a bore. It's a beat slower than it should be, it makes its points laboriously, and the plot surprise would be obvious even if I hadn't seen the same device used in exactly the same way earlier this year in "Chasing Liberty."Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The role of a poised daddy's girl is a dull one for Holmes, who looks pained, in a nonspecific way, throughout her capers; the movie itself, with a screenplay by Jessica Bendinger and Kate Kondell, is a dull one for director Forest Whitaker.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
While First Daughter is nowhere near as airheaded or disingenuous as "Chasing Liberty," it's far more confused.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ben Kenigsberg
First Daughter is less amusing than Jenna and Barb at the RNC, and dumb enough to make last January's presidential scion, Mandy Moore, look electable.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
One hackneyed, inauthentic, predictable scene after another.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Just bland behavioral propaganda, and Holmes makes such a guileless and robotic spokeswoman, it wouldn't be nuts to think the White House was just another mansion in Stepford.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Plays more like a nightmare than a dream, and an exceedingly unnerving one at that. Sam isn't just a prisoner of her parents' ambitions; like nearly everyone else in this film, she's a zombie, sleepwalking through life while Rome burns.Read Full Review »
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