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75The result is a worthy woman's film and Jolie's best showcase to date.
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67Manages to squeeze by on Angelina Jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy.
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63It's dispiriting to see Jolie wasting herself (and a good supporting cast) on a story that requires little more than an average pretty actress who can wear clothes well and laugh and cry on cue.
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63Affable, but, as something with more ambition, it disappoints. Herek has once again found the feel-good path to mediocrity.
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63It's cheerful nonsense from blithe beginning to obvious end.
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60Amiably glossy if naggingly old-fashioned.
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50If the heroine really had seven days left, she wouldn't waste it watching stuff like this.
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50Pseudo-profound fluff.
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50This is an excellent movie for watching Jolie, one of the more entertaining sidelines in recent Hollywood movie going. There are two firsts for her here: Angelina does blonde and, more importantly, Angelina does comedy.
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50Life at least deserves a nod for supplying the mostly dramatic actress with her first starring comedic role.
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40Dimly entertaining, the sort of thing that doesn't insult you so much that you feel compelled to flee the theater, but it's too inert to be anything close to charming or compelling.
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40Jolie hogs the spotlight as usual, leaving romantic interest Ed Burns struggling to register and only Shaloub -- fetid, dirty, soulful -- with his dignity intact.
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40A banal message movie.
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40A deeply metaphysical film by contempo Hollywood standards, this middlebrow trifle may engage the emotions of a certain tier of young professional women.
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38The movie creaks and groans, weighed down by clichés.
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38Partly a schmaltzy, by-the-numbers romantic comedy, partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless.
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38Life is a crock -- or something like it.
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30Director Stephen Herek certainly doesn't come up with anything, and he fails to make the swings between silliness and schmaltz smoothly.
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30The relentless upbeatness of Life or Something Like It wrecks the possibility of either real laughter or genuine pathos.
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30This mad prophet says it will die in a week.
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30It's difficult to concentrate on the story. Not that there's much to concentrate on anyway.
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25This is an ungainly movie, ill-fitting, with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be. To quote another ancient proverb, "A camel is a horse designed by a committee." Life or Something Like It is the movie designed by the camel.
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25This film about a career gal's date with fate careers out of control.
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25Delivered with all the subtlety of a steel-toe boot, you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie.
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25To top it off, the ending is a clumsy cheat. Of course, I was rooting for the news gal to expire and the film to die a quick death.
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25Mostly about slapping together a bunch of clichés -- outdated clichés at that -- regarding the loneliness of ambitious women.
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20The truth of the matter is that, given the thoroughly manipulative, red-herring plot twists that get her to the happy ending, most audience members will have ceased to care about whether she lives or dies long before the matter is settled onscreen.
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20Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation (career - kids = misery) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds.
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20Say what you want about Hollywood losing its way in recent years, there's something beautiful about moviemakers who paint themselves into corners this tight.
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In the hands of Preston Sturges, this could have been the basis for some snappy mordant comedy, but Stephen Herek (Mr. Holland's Opus) sees only fields of corn, winding up with one of those pseudodeep stories (e.g. American Beauty) that Hollywood takes for spiritual.
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10Oh, please. Stop and smell the manure.
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0Every now and then, though, a movie comes up with a scene of surpassing stupidity, and then builds from that defining moment to a climax of perfect ineptitude. Life or Something Like It is such an achievement.
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