| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
Takes the raw truth and makes it jubilantly, terrifically entertaining.
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| 100 |
Boston Globe
Roberts and Erin Brockovich have Oscar contender written all over them.
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| 100 |
Portland Oregonian
All the up-from-under satisfaction of an underdog getting over, with the added oomph of the truth.
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| 90 |
TNT RoughCut
Morgan Fouch
Roberts shines.
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| 90 |
Village Voice
This is the Julia Roberts performance her fans have been waiting for.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
Irresistible, hugely satisfying feminist fairy tale.
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| 90 |
Salon.com
Surely one of the canniest and most accurate films about American working-class life ever.
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| 88 |
USA Today
A first-rate office comedy of prickly exchanges.
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| 88 |
Baltimore Sun
The kind of movie that gives mainstream Hollywood star vehicles a good name.
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| 88 |
New York Post
The kind of stand-up-and-cheer movie Hollywood is supposed to have forgotten how to make.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
Roberts, in her most forceful dramatic performance, allows us to take in every moment through fresh, impassioned eyes.
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| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
She's foul-mouthed, trashy, a legal pit bull ... and she's wonderful.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
Comic electricity.
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| 80 |
Variety
Snappy and unusually funny under fundamentally serious circumstances, without being contrived or sitcomy.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
A sexy, hugely enjoyable romp, hedged with lyrical grace notes and intimate detail.
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| 80 |
Rolling Stone
Outrageously, even shamelessly, entertaining.
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| 80 |
Slate
Roberts has her most galvanic role, and she's sensationally appealing.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
The most memorable David vs. Goliath courtroom showdown in recent memory.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Roberts carries the film in the best sense, by taking us on a human journey of genuine discovery and growth.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The ultimate Julia Roberts movie.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Loose and funny with verve.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Roberts inhabits the character with a gravity and poignancy that she had never even hinted at before.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
The acting is amiable and the story is crisply told.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
It is a rabble-rousing cheerfest, based on a true story.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Retains enough of Soderbergh's usual indie sensibility to make some sly but contentious points.
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| 60 |
Dallas Observer
This is a Julia Roberts Movie about only one thing: being a Julia Roberts Movie.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
The feel-good movie of the year.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Julia Roberts owns this sweet-natured film.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Soderbergh demands a lot from his star here, and she delivers.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A screenplay with the depth and insight of a cable-TV docudrama.
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| 50 |
Film.com
It's not that this is lousy entertainment, it's just that it's a Serious Topic given unnecessary Celebrity Sheen.
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| 50 |
Mr. Showbiz
All of the filmmaker's fine work and good intentions cannot make this repetitive and finally tiresome saga fly.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Entertaining -- if predictable.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Standard-issue liberal feel-good fodder.
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| 20 |
Time
Erin Brockovich is slick, grating and false. We bet it makes a bundle.
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