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73
Duchess of Langeais, The
72
Roman de gare
72
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72
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72
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71
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71
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71
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69
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68
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67
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67
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67
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67
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66
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66
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65
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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61
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61
Girls Rock!
59
Under the Same Moon
59
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58
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58
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
Pathology
55
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54
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52
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50
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48
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47
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35
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32
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30
Cover
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Monster-in-Law
New Line Cinema
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sex references and language
Starring
Jennifer Lopez,
Jane Fonda,
Michael Vartan,
Wanda Sykes,
Adam Scott,
Annie Parisse,
Monet Mazur, Will Arnett,
and
Elaine Stritch
After years of looking for Mr. Right, Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini (Lopez) finally finds the man of her dreams (Vartan) only to discover that his mother (Fonda) is the woman of her nightmares. (New Line Cinema)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Anya Kochoff
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Robert Luketic
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 30, 2005
Theatrical: May 13, 2005
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
102 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It's a hoot to watch Fonda cut loose and mix it up with J. Lo, even when the laughs turn mean-spirited.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A generational spectacle that's fun to witness.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Isn't a particularly good movie if what interests you is the art of film -- cinematography, editing, screenwriting, staging, little things like that. But if you're chiefly interested in turning off the upstairs lights and relaxing with a few laughs, you could do a lot worse.

63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Fonda is a hoot and a half.

50
Premiere
Peter Debruge
Imagine what someone like Danny DeVito might have done with the material, taking it in that darker "War of the Roses" direction instead of languishing in this sunny, not-nearly-sinister-enough "Legally Blonde" territory.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
By Hollywood standards, a movie carried with such gusto by a 67-year-old woman has to be considered a miracle. And I'm not sorry to say I enjoyed watching her do it.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
"Legally Blonde" director Robert Luketic bumbles along with typically clumsy blocking and framing, and the misogyny inherent in the three-ring spectacle of bitch slaps, barbiturate covert ops, and wedding plan hysteria does rankle.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It would take the dark wit of a Billy Wilder or a Coen brother--or at least a Neil Simon--to put across this kind of material.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The movie briefly suggests Viola is an incestuous psychotic.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
This is a gay men's movie whose primary function is to doll Fonda up like a drag queen and let her rip.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
As for Monster-in-Law, it's tripe on a plate.

40
Empire
Angie Errigo
A note to Fonda: even thin, fabulous 67-year-olds shouldn't wear strapless gowns. It's scary.

40
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
All I could think about while watching Jennifer Lopez prance through Monster-in-Law was how cool and poised she was in "Out of Sight."

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Fonda and Sykes are made for each other, and their incessant bickering and arguing are about the only things that give Monster-in-Law any life.

40
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Ultimately one flat-footed beast.

38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Doesn't make the movie worth watching -- even if you're monstrously bored.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Fonda's performance is a perfect storm of histrionics, and she leaves nothing and no one standing.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Add them up and the sum has a certain mathematical inevitability: Really annoying characters, really annoying movie.

38
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A fairly tedious, stupid picture.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Monster-in-Law, where Bridezilla meets Godzilla, is a comedy so anemic, so toxic, that even Dracula wouldn't bite.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Monster-in-Law is appalling misfire of a comedy - a motion picture that takes a situation ripe for the blackest vein of satire and reduces it to a puerile and edgeless pile of goo

30
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Shrill, undermotivated, feature-length catfight.

30
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
Billed as a comedy, this low-wattage sitcom is both ill-tempered and mean-spirited.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
So tame and limp, it may actually give mothers-in-law a good name.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
To boost this movie's rating to "worth seeing" would make me feel like a publicist or simply a dope.

30
Slate
David Edelstein
A depressing comeback for Jane Fonda, but it's still nice to see her in movies again, and in something that isn't dripping with self-actualizing virtue like her last projects.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
How much better this would have been had someone like Brian De Palma stepped behind the camera.

30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This vapid, mean-spirited comedy is Lopez's show, and though she is utterly unconvincing as a paragon of down-to-earth virtues, the last laugh was hers from the outset.

25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Monster-in-Law fails the Gene Siskel Test: "Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?"

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Jane Fonda coming back to the screen after a decade-and-a-half absence in Monster-in-Law is like Brando returning from the dead to star in a Police Academy movie.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's incorrigibly unfunny.

25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The comedy is shamelessly stupid and flagrantly vulgar by turns.

20
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
A shrunken, cowardly movie in deep denial of its true nature, which is far uglier than it is ever willing to admit.

20
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
A deeply dispiriting movie, not just because it is grindingly bad but because Jane Fonda actually chose this for her comeback after a 15-year absence from the screen. But it's worse than that. Fonda, one of the best actors of her generation, is downright awful in a role she could have -- and probably should have -- sleepwalked through.

20
The New Yorker
David Denby
The self-confident fatuity and condescension of the movie is offensive.

20
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Fonda believed in acting. She doesn't seem to believe in it anymore. Her performance in this film is a collection of reactions, vocal whoops, and pouncings that we have seen often before in lesser actors.

20
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The movie itself is grotesque, and may drive you nuts as it makes you laugh, mostly at the stupidity of the thing.
0
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
It's not hard to imagine the militant Jane Fonda of 1972 angrily denouncing Monster-In-Law as insulting Hollywood claptrap trafficking in regressive, reactionary, blatantly sexist gender codes. And she'd be right.


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