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52
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47
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47
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46
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43
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43
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43
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39
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37
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Glitter
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sensuality, language and brief violence
Starring
Mariah Carey,
Eric Benét,
Kyle Thrash,
Chris Tessaro,
and
Max Beesley
The story of a young singer, Billie Frank (Carey), who overcomes a turbulent childhood and struggles to find her true family and her true voice. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Kate Lanier
John Wilder
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Vondie Curtis-Hall
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 15, 2002
Video: January 15, 2002
Theatrical: September 21, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Glitter is the week's only major Hollywood release, and it offers considerable escapist entertainment while hitting an affirmative note.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
And above all, the film is lacking in joy. It never seems like it's fun to be Billie Frank.

40
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Glitter is, if nothing else, comfortable with what it is, namely earnestly made, wholehearted schlock.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This is the worst performance by a pop star in a dramatic role since Madonna suited up for "Shanghai Surprise."

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Helplessly clichéd, predictable and unaware of its own lameness, it could easily become a camp classic on the order of "Grease 2" and "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

30
Washington Post
Megan Rosenfeld
We don't have much space to tell you about Glitter, so we'll be blunt. This star vehicle for singer Mariah Carey is primarily a showcase for her breasts.

25
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Even the soundtrack doesn't rescue the movie from its tedious banality.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Glitter, the kind of movie only 11-year-old girls who dot their i's with hearts would find bearable.

25
Boston Globe
Joan Anderman
It touches on universal themes of love, friendship, and family. Suffice to say it falls dreadfully short.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's doubtful that even a real actress could have triumphed over the rusty tinsel of Glitter, a hapless, retro-'80s ''Star Is Born.''

25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
"Zis is not verking! Zee glitter cannot overpower zee artist!" That, in a sentence, sums up what is wrong with this picture.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
It doesn't help that Glitter is such a derivative mishmash of cinematic and real-life situations that it's nearly impossible to count all the ways.

20
TV Guide
Steve Simels
A butt-numbing exercise in tedium, sporadically redeemed by moments of unintentional hilarity.

20
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Take the G out of Glitter and it's litter.
12
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Glitter does no one any favors.
10
Variety
Robert Koehler
Glitter deserves yet another title: "A Star Is Dull." As phony a vehicle as one could possibly concoct for a wannabe movie star, pic carries Mariah Carey into a swamp of gloppy melodrama.

10
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
A heart-wrenching debacle from the starting gun.

10
The New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
Mostly dross, an unintentionally hilarious compendium of time-tested cinematic clichés that illustrates the chasm between hopeful imitation and successful duplication.

10
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
I desperately wanted Glitter to be trashy and over-the-top, to be so courageously awful. As it is, it isn't nearly bad enough to be that kind of good. It's simply there, all dressed up with no place to go, and that's the most damning thing you could say about it.

10
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Just when you think it could not get more ridiculous, Hall, Lanier, and Miss Mariah go that extra mile.

0
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Assure Patient, who has paranoid delusions about Jennifer Lopez being molded into the new M______ C_____, to rest easy because Lopez has never made a film as bad as Glitter.

0
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
How could a major studio -- in this case 20th Century Fox -- put its name on a production with a dim-bulb, tone-deaf script that piles howler on howler? Why couldn't someone save poor Ms. Carey from herself?
0
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
Worst movie of the year.


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