| 90 |
Time
Beautiful Girls is always in touch with reality but never drowned in it. [19 February 1996, p.64]
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie was directed by Ted Demme, with a light touch that allows the humor to survive in spite of the gloomy thoughts and the bleak, dark, frozen winter landscape.
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| 80 |
Empire
Darren Bignell
The film really succeeds with its warm treatment of ordinary hang-ups - no life-shattering revelations or pain repressed since childhood, just the genuine, everyday trials of life.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Tender, touching and downright delightful.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Redeemed by sensitive acting.
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| 75 |
Rolling Stone
What saves director Ted Demme's comic talkfest from sitcom slickness is a quirky script by Scott Rosenberg and an appealing cast.
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| 75 |
USA Today
Easy to tumble for. [9 February 1996, p.D4]
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Has warmth and good cheer. The film is loosely focused, but its ensemble cast is as affable as anything on television these days.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
The movie is wry, touching and fun to sit through, thanks to Rosenberg's amusing script, Ted Demme's vital direction and zesty performances from everyone.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
With beauty and talent to spare, Portman is something to behold: It's as if Elizabeth Taylor and Jodie Foster were somehow genetically melded at an early age. She's definitely a beautiful girl to watch for.
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| 60 |
The New Yorker
Sara Kerr
It's too long by half an hour, and the director, Ted Demme, can't hold onto a rhythm, but the actors are uniformly sharp, and so are the actresses.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Staff (Not credited)
Wavers between being condescending and downright preposterous, but there are redeeming moments.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Directed, with overfondness for the goofy ways of guys, by Ted Demme and written, with overfondness for the sound of guys pontificating about nothing, by Scott Rosenberg.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Jack Mathews
Beautiful Girls follows the boys as they work their way through these crises, and it's about as much fun as a neighborhood bar on a Tuesday night. Its crisis: not much happening.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Forget Beautiful Girls. The title ought to be "Jerky, Messed- Up Dudes With Nowhere to Go"
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| 50 |
ReelViews
Despite its name, Beautiful Girls is actually about a group of irritating, twenty-something males whose adolescent attitudes have remained with them well into adulthood.
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| 50 |
Variety
A great title in search of a movie to live up to it, this startlingly uneventful compendium of thick-headed boy-talk and female tolerance squanders a fine cast on incredibly ordinary characters and situations.
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| 38 |
San Francisco Examiner
Something in Hutton's wounded puppy look always communicates an untapped intelligence or wasted potential, both of which are perfect for this role.
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