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90It's clear that Schumacher has risen from the self-imposed dreck of "Batman & Robin" and has returned to Hollywood to tell a good story.
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83It says a lot for Joel Schumacher's Flawless that you can see the picture's high-concept heart a mile away and still be won over by it.
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75More fable than slice of life, and all these people and props give Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman their opening to create two screwy characters from opposite ends of the great personality divide
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75Contrived and overly schematic, but De Niro and Hoffman are such good actors that it never slips into pat sentiment.
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75A smartly crafted throwback to the gritty Manhattan crime melodramas of the '40s .
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70One of the season's biggest delights.
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67Not content to whisper its truths; it would rather flaunt its valuable lessons and its good intentions, proudly boasting its sentiments like a (rainbow-striped) badge of honor.
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66Perhaps most depressingly, in pulling out all the stops for an ugly, violent climax, he (Schumacher) cheapens this vividly drawn slice of life, turning it into a tiresomely flawed, garden-variety vigilante thriller.
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63Worth stumbling into on cable not all that far into next year.
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60This surprisingly grim comedy-drama is about as good as director Joel Schumacher gets.
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60If you want to see an object lesson in how brilliant acting can transcend high concept, this movie's for you.
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60Flawless this Joel Schumacher film is not, but it plays so well that scarcely matters.
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60This 'heartwarming' thriller refuses to distinguish realism from stylization, and much of the plot is a twisted mess of repetition and unpersuasive motivation.
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58It finally just rings false as a human drama.
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50At its best when it simply lets Hoffman and De Niro play off each other .
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50De Niro gives a technically brilliant performance as Walt, struggling with a body that will no longer obey him.
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50It's obvious and stereotypical. It's leaden and unconvincing. It's not nearly as outrageous as it thinks it is.
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50An appallingly crude film, with dialogue lifted off bumper stickers, characters stitched together from shorthand clichés (the brassy black drag queen; the fiery little Latin number) and a plot that's on cruise control from the opening credits.
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50Flawless never approaches the rancid bluster of "8MM," but it's an equally dishonest piece of manipulative hackwork.
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50A small-scale mess.
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50Crass and depressing drama.
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50So awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes.
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50Schumacher takes a step in the right direction with Flawless, a small-scale, intimate serio-comedy.
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50A coy seriocomedy distantly related to--but missing the sting of--"Kiss of the Spider Woman."
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40You need a pair of huge, hairy ones to make a picture this bad and call it Flawless.
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40Corny, predictable, and packed with gay stereotypes.
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38In making a movie that preaches love for odd ducks, Schumacher has turned Flawless into the oddest duck of all.
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38Save your breath, and your money.
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38Hoffman's turn as the drag queen has its endearing and comically catty moments, but Flawless' utter phoniness subsumes all efforts at honest acting.
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38A long, slow pity party full of characters who constantly bemoan their fate while telling other people not to pity themselves.
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33While this film has got a good head on its shoulders and a nicely made-up face, flawless it's not.
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25This noisy, disorganized story is riddled with clichés, stereotypes, and self-indulgence from beginning to end.
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25Flawless is what happens when a filmmaker has no sense of naturalism, no sense of realism and no real natural sense.
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