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  • Starring: Laura Kirk
  • Summary: This mockumentary is a roller coaster ride through the rose-tinted glasses of an aspiring actress's dreams and dramas. (First Look Pictures)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
  3. Negative: 3 out of 16
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    91
    It's not every comedy that can make you laugh with ridicule and cringe in empathetic horror at the same time.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    80
    Fortunately, it never dips into bathos. These two actors SHOULD be noticed. They've crafted the most ingenious résumé of the year.
  3. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    60
    As amusing and sharply performed as it is, Lisa Picard quickly grows thin and dull. Perhaps it would have been better as a real documentary, with Kirk and DeWolf simply playing their pathetic selves.
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  4. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    30
    The makers of Lisa Picard Is Famous -- having mastered the obvious early on, set their sights on the unfunny and repetitive.

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  1. MichaelL.
    8
    Until it turns around and becomes reverential at the very end, it's a witty, painful, sharply observed jab at pretentious performers who think they are "curing cancer". How sad that director Griffin Dunne rebukes his own vision and justifies pretention in the final reel. Still, well worth viewing...just turn off the DVD player ten minutes before the end.… Expand

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