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83Watts is a champ for seeing this through now that she's actually famous.
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Watts and Coffey may have vaulted Hollywood's gated enclaves, but this affectionate film shows they haven't forgotten, nor idealized, their days among the ranks of the struggling and ambitious.
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80The sharpest, most authentic portrait of Hollywood life made in the last several years. (As a movie about contemporary Los Angeles, it's approximately 617 percent better than the monumentally bogus "Shopgirl.")
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80Ellie Parker is at once hilarious and harrowing, and in being so, seems right on target.
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75A good movie, fearless and true, observant and merciless. Naomi Watts was brave to make it and gifted to make it so well.
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70Fun, scattershot Hollywood spoof.
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67Coffey, a tart comic mind who should cast his net farther from the 405, pads his story with more and more familiar degradations, and Watts plays each one to the hilt.
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Welcome to the world of Ellie Parker, a faux-documentary and big, fat raspberry dedicated to L.A.'s underclass.
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63Eventually the energy of the original short runs out and the movie coasts on fumes, but it remains surprisingly enjoyable for all that.
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60A rare pleasure.
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60A splendid performance by Naomi Watts holds together this smart and astutely restrained lampoon of life in the Hollywood basement.
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A splendid idea for a film goes largely wasted despite a brave performance by Naomi Watts as a struggling actress trying to figure it all out in Hollywood.
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Can't sustain its narrative for a full 95 minutes.
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50A clumsy spoof of Hollywood, EP always roots for its hapless heroine. But where this trifle fascinates most is in its connections to David Lynch's masterpiece.
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50For Ms. Watts, it is a small, brave acting tour de force.
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50Most of the gags misfire, though some scenes are memorably tawdry.
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40Watts is in nearly every frame of the movie, so if you're a fan (and you should be) that's the reason to see this.
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40Without Watts, Scott Coffey's feature-length expansion of his identically titled short wouldn't amount to much.
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38Watts is good -- occasionally very good -- and her willingness to be filmed at unflattering angles, in pore-wallowing or with bright blue ice cream smeared on her face is admirable.
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30It almost seems that Watts made a movie this intentionally scuzzy and low-rent as a severe form of penance to the gods of authenticity for the sin of making millions jet-setting around the world appearing in big, glamorous super-productions. But she goes too far in making the audience suffer as well.
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25Shot on digital video, made on the run whenever Watts was available between gigs, the movie is a pointless, tedious eyesore.
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Naomi Watts is the only explanation for the existence of the student-y digital video feature Ellie Parker.
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PaulD.5Excellent performance by Naomi Watts, who dominates the screen, but the script is just too weak.
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KeeunJ.8
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AdrianL.0Simply awful!