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Generally favorable reviews- based on 167 Ratings

  • Starring: Adrian Grenier, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep
  • Summary: The best-selling novel about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic worlds of high fashion and publishing comes to the big screen.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 40
  2. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    88
    If you can tell the difference between a mule and a pump, attendance at The Devil Wears Prada is mandatory. You might have to reach back to "Funny Face" to find a fashion movie so on-trend.
  2. 80
    Bright and crisp and funny, the movie turns dish into art--or, if not quite into art, then at least into the kind of dazzling commercial entertainment that Hollywood, in the days of George Cukor or Stanley Donen, used to turn out.
  3. Reviewed by: Helen O'Hara
    80
    This smart and funny creation is not just wish-fulfilment for the "Sex And The City" generation -- it's a Wall Street for the 21st century.
  4. Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    60
    A scantily clad revenge memoir.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 82
  2. Negative: 9 out of 82
  1. MarioJ.
    10
    Meryly Streep, perfection.
  2. MeiH.
    8
    A witty movie and great performances!
  3. BarryR.
    6
    The movie is a formulaesque story about a fashion magazine and those who write, edit and supply its pages. Women will no doubt love the fashions, the styles and the clothes but all will probably find it simply OK but not really great. It Expand
  4. MarkS.
    2
    Beautifully shot, and a great performance by Streep, but this movie is predictible tripe. And I'm shocked that not a single critic even noticed that Hathaway is playing essentially the same part as her roles in the two "Princess Diary" movies. Expand

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