- Studio: New Line Home Video
- Release Date: Aug 23, 2002
- 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.
- Director: Andrew Niccol
- Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 38
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Mixed: 21 out of 38
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Negative: 6 out of 38
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88Hilariously inventive Hollywood satire.
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80Simone is a funny, smart, improbably successful satire on contemporary celebrity obsessions, the waning summer's most delirious comedy.
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60The result is gorgeous, if ultimately shallow -- much like Simone herself.
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38What it is, distressingly, is a mess - a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative, of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 15
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Mixed: 2 out of 15
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Negative: 5 out of 15