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Mixed or average reviews - based on 38 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 30 Ratings

  • Starring: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts
  • Summary: When his lead actress walks off the set, a disillusioned film producer (Pacino) creates a digital star who becomes an overnight sensation.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 38
  2. Negative: 6 out of 38
  1. Hilariously inventive Hollywood satire.
  2. Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    80
    Simone is a funny, smart, improbably successful satire on contemporary celebrity obsessions, the waning summer's most delirious comedy.
  3. 60
    The result is gorgeous, if ultimately shallow -- much like Simone herself.
  4. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    What it is, distressingly, is a mess - a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative, of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 15
  2. Negative: 5 out of 15

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