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52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
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  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    75
    Pointed and hilarious.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    In working with Lynne Adams' script, Shalhoub, the esteemed star of the current USA series "Monk," gives his cast the inspiration and confidence to express the characters' many facets and seeming contradictions.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    70
    Its warm, occasionally off-putting individuality is more like what you look for in a friend than in a movie, and like a friend it invites you to see the unique beauty that lies under its superficial flaws.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    It wants, as Kate says about her documentary, to be a "seminal work on beauty and aging." But it wears like a gauzy romantic comedy.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    It's never dull: Shalhoub's direction is smart, the dialogue is tart and the Adams' family shares a palpable intimacy that translates directly onto the screen.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: David Hunter
    50
    With Made-Up, the sisters Adams and Shalhoub (who is married to Brooke) have taken a playfully irreverent approach to middle-age rites of passage that comes with many opportunities for the performers to self-consciously "act."
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    Like picking out a family at random and walking into their house during dinnertime. Sure, their conversations are fascinating to them. But to you, it's just boring, meaningless chatter.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Lael Loewenstein
    50
    While the whole may be less than the sum of its parts, those parts are individually commendable. Shalhoub has an eye for composition and a strong sense of pacing.
  9. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    40
    Voice-overs and commentaries are piled on top of contrived intimate moments until, despite some easygoing performances, the movie -- the actual movie -- is a blur of undercooked motivations and halfhearted improv.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Joshua Land
    40
    A ham-fisted satire on the American obsession with appearance, Made-Up is ultimately self-defeating and even offensive.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Megan Lehmann
    38
    Tries to be many things -- romantic comedy, mockumentary, a satire on beauty and aging -- but ends up succeeding at none.
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