| 100 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Altman always manages to pop up with another masterpiece -- and darned if he hasn't done it again.
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| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
It's a joy. Altman does Dallas the way he did "Nashville" in Nashville or Hollywood in "The Player."
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| 88 |
New York Post
Altman and Rapp skirt the fine line between satire and caricature, stopping just short of ridiculing the women who pack Dr. T's office.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
Funny and ebullient look at a man in full confusion.
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| 80 |
Rolling Stone
Altman orchestrates Dr. T's odyssey with the precision, heart and lively wit of a virtuoso.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Rapp is clearly in sync with Altman's peerless sense of rhythm and knows how to write incisively and economically for Altman's cherished large ensemble casts.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
The movie's sexual politics are as contrived as its plot, which veers off into one of the surprise endings of which Mr. Altman is so fond.
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| 80 |
Slate
A giddy ballet in which the women whirl around a still, clueless man.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
Altman gladly admits there's not much of a story here; his movies are driven by characters.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
A comedy of chaos, an ensemble comedy, with characters swirling around one another unaware, in their uniform desperation, of how funny they are.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Provocative, audacious.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Gere has never been better cast.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
A finely coiffed, cream-cheese "8 1/2" remix with Gere, a Marcello Mastroianni for Oprah Winfrey times.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Altman would never admit this, but I believe Dr. T, the gynecologist in his latest film, is an autobiographical character.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
One of the curmudgeonly director's sweetest films, and features one of Richard Gere's most affecting performances.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Some will dislike its shaggy-dog screenplay and restless camera work, and others may find its finale too postfeminist for comfort.
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| 70 |
Variety
Gere breaks through with what may or may not be his best performance.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Prior to its hyperbolic final act, this is one of Robert Altman's most skillful and least bombastic features in some time.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
If you skim along the surface of this movie, you'll have more fun than if you submit the movie to scrutiny.
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| 68 |
Mr. Showbiz
A jauntily entertaining ride.
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| 63 |
USA Today
The movie's pleasures extend even to the visuals, which are more lustrous than in any other Altman movie.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
This would be an excellent movie from a first-time filmmaker, but from one of America's premiere directors, it's a disappointment.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
The movie that pretends to celebrate women devolves into the complaint of a wronged man.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
A flabby farce in which everyone seems to be making it up as they go along.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Altman is just as nastily misogynistic as ever.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Rapp's snappy, loquacious and catty script gives the predominantly female ensemble plenty to chew on.
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| 60 |
Salon.com
Almost all of the movie's romantic lunacy is too calculated and sly; the picture never quite sweeps us away.
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| 60 |
Film.com
It's a terrific showcase for Richard Gere, Shelley Long, Farrah Fawcett and a number of other actors who almost seemed to have been written off.
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| 50 |
TNT RoughCut
Belongs somewhere in the low middle of Altman's output -- not up to "Cookie's Fortune," but way better than, say, "Beyond Therapy," which remains his worst film by some margin.
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| 50 |
Time
The film's blithe misogyny soon becomes wearying; it refuses to see women as more than the sum of their private parts.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
Bad comedy.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Though it starts out as amusing satire, the jokes become as neurotic as Dallas' female population, and the film spins out of control in every way.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Though it's allegedly a comedy, there is nothing funny about this tasteless, shallow and mean-spirited slam.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
About the only good thing to say about this mess is that it's rotten enough that even Altman cultists may be forced to reconsider their devotion.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
The comedy is often harsh and cruel.
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