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Beautiful People
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79 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    91
    There's a bravura recklessness to Beautiful People that perfectly fits its subject.
  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    90
    Fierce, funny and vividly moving.
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  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    90
    It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    Lives up to its ambitiousness in all its aspects.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    90
    Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.
  6. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    90
    The best movie of this very young millennium.
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  7. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    89
    It's an audacious, affecting, and unexpectedly hilarious debut, and most definitely the most original film I've seen all year.
  8. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    88
    Though frequently brutal and off-putting, Beautiful People is a must-see.
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  9. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Diana Abu-Jaber
    83
    If dissonance is your dish, you'll find Beautiful People tempting indeed.
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  10. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: F. X. Feeney
    80
    Dizdar maintains a knife-edged balance in tone throughout the film
  11. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    80
    Deftly delivered and free of gratuitous gloss, yet enormously rich in its unassuming manner.
  12. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    80
    The movie's devil-may-care freneticism is edgily amusing, almost liberating.
  13. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    80
    Dizdar inventively examines bigotry, combining daring humor and hyperbole, dark realism and shining idealism.
  14. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    It is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like "Catch-22," it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war.
  15. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    75
    Often grim, but never nihilistic: Even at its darkest, Dizdar gives the movie an optimistic bounce. The movie is often shockingly funny, too.
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  16. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    75
    Behind the inspired wackiness is a story about how our warlike nature needs some changing before we can all live in relative harmony.
  17. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    75
    When Dizdar hits, he hits big.
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  18. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    75
    Dizdar humorously compares and contrasts extremes in economics and lifestyles and looks at the west through the eyes of an outsider.
  19. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Graham Fuller
    70
    More whimsical than gloomy, for all the horrors it alludes to or depicts.
  20. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    63
    Inside Beautiful People, . . . there's a terrific film trying to get out.
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  21. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    It's a spirited and essentially optimistic film, but it's also simplistic.
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  22. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    50
    For a bighearted effort like this one, some patience on the audience's part is not too much to ask. Go ahead. Take a chance.
  23. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Equal parts soap drama and ham-fisted morality tale.
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