Critic Reviews
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New York Post
Kyle Smith
Comes as close as any film to explaining what the deal is with women and shopping.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Going Shopping is sharp and funny about all the things that shopping can mean to the women who live to do it, and even to those who don't.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Going Shopping can make a wonderful outing for girlfriends. It's fun.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
There's just enough neurotic or sharp badinage and Rodeo Drive realism to make it all go down easy.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
It completes an informal trilogy that treats women's anxieties over food, motherhood and now clothes with humor and affection.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
As in many of his films, Jaglom establishes a striking intimate rapport with his female subjects, and as the funny and bitter revelations pour forth, an activity that many men may view as something done strictly out of necessity takes on unforeseen narcotic, romantic and therapeutic dimensions.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Though intermittently shrill, Shopping does have enough moments of insight to blunt charges of sexist stereotyping.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Going Shopping, like Mr. Jaglom's other movies, has enough smart, knowing touches and enough easy spontaneity among its well-chosen actors to make you wish it added up to more than what it turns out to be: a flighty, motor-mouthed cinematic divertissement.
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| 60 |
Film Threat
Jaglom has the good sense to cast the legendary Lee Grant in an extraordinary role.
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| 50 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Zeroes in on retail mania with a flimsy wire hanger of a premise.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Every scene ends with a gag line, punched up by Jaglom's harried intercutting, and threaded through the story are close-ups of women discussing their obsession with new clothes, an exercise that yields its wisdom in the first 20 minutes and then keeps repeating it.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The message is muddled.
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| 40 |
Variety
Lael Loewenstein
Item may draw curious women looking to cool their heels, say, while out shopping, but straight men can be expected to stay away in droves and Jaglom regulars will probably wait for the DVD.
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| 38 |
TV Guide
More cheerful misogyny from writer-director Henry Jaglom.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Henry Jaglom's latest study of contemporary female obsessions among a noxious clan of West L.A. bourgeoisie is of more pathological than cinematic interest.
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