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83It may be the first movie that mirrors, in its very syntax, the ''snap crackle and pop'' narcotic superficiality of the E! channel. I mean that as a compliment.
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80Every so often, a movie comes along that is so bad, so unfunny, so incredibly awful that it redefines how you think about film. Stardom is just such a movie.
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75A naughtily funny, skin-deep satire.
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75What makes it interesting is the story that the viewer must put together, of a model who lives her entire life -- or at least what we see of it -- in front of the camera.
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75In Arcand's skilled hands, this sassy assembly comes together to be a comedy, a satire and a character study that's somehow not a bit condescending.
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70In his observant, swiftly paced Stardom, Arcand does it all with relentless wit, high style, and a suggestion of tragedy.
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63Denys Arcand has satiric fun with the media's way of taking celebrity culture at face value and nothing but. Eventually, though, the film becomes what it's ridiculing.
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60For all the film's cleverness -- and it's often very clever -- it's as thin as its heroine.
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50This film has so many good ideas, it tends to seem better after you've left the theater. But the mock TV stuff is just too faux to be funny.
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50A glitzy and shallow satire about shallow people.
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40With Woody Allen's "Celebrity," Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter" and MTV's "House of Style" predating it by half a decade, this is kind of like clubbing harp seals in a meat locker.
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40What keeps Stardom watchable is Arcand's droll humor.
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40Takes us down a familiar path without discovering anything new along the way.
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30Through a messy series of news reports, interviews, talk shows, and behind-the-scenes footage, Arcand creates a cinema vérité spoof that's not nearly as penetrating or enjoyable as he thinks.
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30Stardom just doesn't have enough anger or conviction to carry it to a satisfying finish.
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30The irony is that this film about the superficiality of celebrity-crazed Western society is itself somewhat superficial.
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25The satire is intermittently amusing, but Arcand adds little to the arsenal of standard mockumentary tricks, and the interesting cast doesn't get many interesting things to do.
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20With a few exceptions, most of the laughs in Stardom are cheap...and worse, the ideas beyond platitudinous.
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20Stardom makes its metaphor of 15 minutes seem like a lifetime.
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10Sitting through this barrage of all-purpose insults aimed at obvious targets was an unenlightening chore.
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0Tells us nothing we didn't already know, and it tells it over and over and over.
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