| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
There's a bravura recklessness to Beautiful People that perfectly fits its subject.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
Lives up to its ambitiousness in all its aspects.
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| 90 |
Village Voice
It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
Fierce, funny and vividly moving.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.
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| 90 |
Time
The best movie of this very young millennium.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
It's an audacious, affecting, and unexpectedly hilarious debut, and most definitely the most original film I've seen all year.
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| 88 |
Mr. Showbiz
Though frequently brutal and off-putting, Beautiful People is a must-see.
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| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
If dissonance is your dish, you'll find Beautiful People tempting indeed.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Dizdar maintains a knife-edged balance in tone throughout the film
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
Deftly delivered and free of gratuitous gloss, yet enormously rich in its unassuming manner.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
The movie's devil-may-care freneticism is edgily amusing, almost liberating.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
Dizdar inventively examines bigotry, combining daring humor and hyperbole, dark realism and shining idealism.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Behind the inspired wackiness is a story about how our warlike nature needs some changing before we can all live in relative harmony.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Often grim, but never nihilistic: Even at its darkest, Dizdar gives the movie an optimistic bounce. The movie is often shockingly funny, too.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like "Catch-22," it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Dizdar humorously compares and contrasts extremes in economics and lifestyles and looks at the west through the eyes of an outsider.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
When Dizdar hits, he hits big.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Graham Fuller
More whimsical than gloomy, for all the horrors it alludes to or depicts.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
It's a spirited and essentially optimistic film, but it's also simplistic.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Inside Beautiful People, . . . there's a terrific film trying to get out.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Equal parts soap drama and ham-fisted morality tale.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
For a bighearted effort like this one, some patience on the audience's part is not too much to ask. Go ahead. Take a chance.
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