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80A teenage movie that trusts its audience -- it sounds crazy, but it's actually quite beautiful.
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80Even after losing its sexiest, tawdriest moments, this teen romance is still hotter, smarter and more fearless than its Hollywood contemporaries.
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80Very much of a guilty pleasure. A nifty piece of teenage romantic piffle, it combines two strong and attractive performances.
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80It is an enormous improvement over the brainless, patronizing teenage romances that have slouched into (and quickly out of) theaters in recent years. But it could, if the filmmakers had trusted themselves and the actors a bit more, have lived up to its title.
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80Gutsy romance-drama that breaks a cardinal rule of storytelling and pop psychology: its iconic lovers aren't forced by a tragedy to learn that they shouldn't depend on each other to feel whole.
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75Tougher, less sentimental mirror version of "Save the Last Dance."
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75Stockwell deserves kudos for working mental illness into a teen story without making it the explicit focus, as in simplistic exercises like "Girl, Interrupted."
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75Fast, wacky and bubbling with passion or dark, troubled and doomed. In the unusually titled crazy/beautiful, it's all those things at once.
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75An impressive portrait of the migraine of teenage girlhood, and also works on the more modest level of teen romance.
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75An intelligent romance that cuts against the grain of the youth-pic genre, crazy/beautiful boasts a scarily good performance from Dunst.
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75Even when the movie is bad -- it's addictively so.
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75Atypical teen drama about opposites attracting that often (and happily) confounds expectations.
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75The story seems fresh and alive. They also had the good sense to cast Dunst, at 19 already one of Hollywood's finest and most consistent actresses.
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75Dunst, in her finest performance yet, has now transcended her fellow teen stars. She is arguably the first actress of her generation poised to take on Gwyneth and Julia.
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70There's enough substance here to make Crazy/Beautiful more than worthwhile for its target audience, and certainly more useful than the standard teen crapfests.
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67Movingly captures the terrors and delights of being lovesick at 17. Would that it hadn't felt constrained to target only the 17-year-olds.
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67Really a vehicle for Dunst, which would be fine if only the vehicle were more inspired.
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67An absorbing little drama full of unexpected revelations, keen insights into the Anglo and Hispanic cultures of L.A., and strong supporting performances.
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63To have been the film it could have been, crazy/beautiful needed to be messier.
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60Crazy/beautiful has a leisurely local specificity, and Stockwell has a tender way with his actors.
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50Courageous, convincing performance by Dunst.
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50The significant potential of its premise is squandered by an increasing reliance on teen movie cliches, silly plotting and the urge to be upbeat rather than to communicate life lessons.
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30Numbingly predictable.
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30Overproduced as a Super Bowl soft-drink commercial, so much so that even its potentially insightful moments seem like movie fakery.
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Surprisingly mawkish teen film.
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20From the lowercase lettering of the title to the deadly familiarity of the plot, there is much to grate on your nerves in this TV Afterschool Special trying to pass as a real movie.
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krystle10Omg i just saw the movie today it was amazing!!!He a great actor and cant wait to see the movie again.i wish i was kristen dunst!