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45 out of 100

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5.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 58 Ratings

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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 40
  3. Negative: 5 out of 40
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    The characters involve us, we sympathize with their dreams and despair of their matrimonial tunnel vision, and at the end we are relieved that we listened to Miss Watson and became the wonderful people who we are today.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Anna Smith
    60
    There are some roles Julia Roberts was born to play -- a tart with a heart, say, or a likeable and famous actor -- but a charismatic, inspiring 1950s teacher is not one of them.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    38
    As artistic achievements go, Mona Lisa Smile is strictly a paint-by-numbers affair. No shading. Little in the way of perspective. To call it one-dimensional would be an act of charity.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 41
  3. Negative: 21 out of 41
  1. Magician
    10
    Nice.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. Treeebla
    7
    A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 50's Wellesley girls to question their traditional societal roles.
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  3. Treblotski
    5
    In "Mona Lisa Smile", in 1950s, a free thinking art teacher tries to tell her students that they can be more than "kitchen people". In the movie, she is criticised by intruding her ideas and in the end she leaves her students by letting them be. The movie is supposed to be a little confusing. But it turns out to be too confusing. As the good story in this film is over and the end scenes are coming, the movie rushes too roughly to the end. That end is sad and makes You possibly cry, but something is going too wrong with the last quarter of this film.… Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes

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