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55 out of 100

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4.1 out of 10

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  • Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton
  • Summary: An exhilarating combination of romance and suspense ignites sparks of all kinds against the backdrop of an edgy, modern Paris in The Truth About Charlie, Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme's fresh take on the 1963 Stanley Donen film "Charade." (Universal)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 35
  3. Negative: 2 out of 35
  1. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    88
    A sophisticated thrill. And incandescent Thandie Newton is a worthy successor to Audrey Hepburn in 'Charade.'
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    60
    As utterly disastrous movies go, this one's really got something.
  3. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    The Truth About Charlie...is that this "Charade" remake is a lumpen bore.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 5 out of 8
  1. JohnS.
    10
    It was a good movie not as good as the original but pretty good on its own.
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  2. James
    0
    Appalling. It's not like there wasn't a formula for the makers of this pointless remake to follow, the original worked, it could have been updated, if not equalled. Instead, Demme throws out everything that made the original great - romance, humor, suspense, intelligent pacing, all so he can make a movie that seems to parody mainstream genre films and act as a self-satisfied exercise in "New Wave" mimicry. Except the "New Wave" films were just that, new, they were doing something original. Demme's film seems an excuse for him to enjoy working in Paris, it certainly isn't coherent. Plot elements are raised, then forgotten, and what on earth is the crazy mother who murders people doing here, is this a comedy? And the finale, in which the characters seem to lose interest in the mystery, just as the audience has done by this point. Moronic. The definition of the pointless remake, makes Gos Van Sant's "Psycho" seem creative and original. Garbage.… Expand
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