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- 2002
- PG-13
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 57 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 57 m
Summary When his lead actress walks off the set, a disillusioned film producer (Pacino) creates a digital star who becomes an overnight sensation.
Directed By: Andrew Niccol
Written By: Andrew Niccol
- 2002
- PG-13
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 57 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 57 m
S1m0ne
49
8.5
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Summary When his lead actress walks off the set, a disillusioned film producer (Pacino) creates a digital star who becomes an overnight sensation.
Directed By: Andrew Niccol
Written By: Andrew Niccol
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
49
29% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
55% Mixed
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
16% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
49
29% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
55% Mixed
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
16% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Hilariously inventive Hollywood satire.
Niccol gives audiences a very amusing puzzle about authenticity, fraud, and the uses and abuses of technology. That is a fine and funny feat. The very folks responsible for our obsession with celebrity will likely love it. And in loving it, they will no doubt let themselves off the hook.
The result is gorgeous, if ultimately shallow -- much like Simone herself.
Some movies need a suspension of disbelief. Simone requires a suspension bridge. And as fast as you try to build it, the movie keeps tearing it down.
If this is satire, it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook. Effective satire, the Swiftian brand, seduces us first and then implicates us in the seduction -- we become a target too. But this stuff never gets past the initial step -- it's toothless, as innocuous as the puffery it pretends to skewer.
The premise cries out for take-no-prisoners, Terry-Southern-style sick humor; it gets instead a lot of clunky, self-congratulatory in-jokes, and Pacino is left to ham in a vacuum.
Such a tedious Hollywood farce, so unpleasantly glib and relentlessly shallow, that Pacino's excessive performance is not even the worst thing about it.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 193 User Ratings
8.5
79% Positive
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153 Ratings
13% Mixed
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7% Negative
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14 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 193 User Ratings
8.5
79% Positive
153 Ratings
153 Ratings
13% Mixed
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
7% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
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