An obscene, misanthropic go-for-broke satire, Pretty Persuasion is so gleefully nasty that the fact that it was even made and released is astonishing. Much of it is also extremely funny.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
It's too bad that the satire is not more pointed, because Pretty Persuasion is outrageously funny in short blasts, mainly thanks to James Woods at his most gleefully depraved.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Pretty Persuasion reminds me of a half-hour TV series that has a great pilot episode, then falls apart in subsequent installments. Movies need to grow and change to keep things interesting; this one is stagnant.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Janice Page
Isn't so much awful as it is self-conscious, overdone, shallow, and just not up to the level of its star.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
So the movie is daring, and well-acted. Yet it isn't very satisfying, because the serious content keeps breaking through the soggy plot intended to contain it.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
If the resulting film doesn't work equally well at all levels, Wood (who starred in "Thirteen") gives an astonishing performance that pushes it most of the way there.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ben Kenigsberg
A high school send-up more gleefully incorrect than "Heathers" and considerably less articulate than "Election," Pretty Persuasion is a hand grenade lobbed at no place in particular.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Another high school vixen movie, this one with a potty mouth (the vixen) and pretensions of social commentary (the movie), Pretty Persuasion brings to mind a number of other titles, all better.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Curt Fields
It just rings false, like having Hannibal Lecter take up vegetarianism.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
A devastatingly dishonest, tough look at teenage life.Read Full Review »
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