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Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: As novelist Betty Fisher (Kiberlain) starts becoming darkly depressed after the death of her young son, her plotting mother arranges to have another little boy kidnapped to take his place.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. In today's cynical cinematic climate, there's something beautiful in Miller's simple poetic justice.
  2. Makes for interesting, rather than emotionally compelling viewing.
  3. 20
    The good news might be that Huppert wasn't available for Alias Betty, but the bad news is that it didn't stop France from exporting yet one more cold, pretentious, thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2

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