| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
The superb screenplay won an award at Cannes this year for good reason.
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| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A wonderfully twisted comedy.
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| 100 |
Rolling Stone
As ever, Freeman delivers miracles; he's as good as it gets.
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| 91 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
He (LaBute) pulls the farce and the violence and the fantasies together with a deft touch and a sweetness rare in American films -- especially his.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
It is easily the finest American comedy since David O. Russell's "Flirting With Disaster," another road movie that never ran out of poignantly funny surprises.
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| 90 |
Variety
Few actresses can convey the kind of honesty and humanity that Zellweger does here -- it's hard to imagine the film without her dominant, thoroughly credible performance.
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| 90 |
Chicago Reader
This offbeat and unpredictable comedy-thriller throws so many curveballs, one right after another, that I doubt I've had more fun at an American movie this year.
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| 90 |
Film.com
There's a shrewd satiric method to LaBute's madness, and a payoff in comedic gold.
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| 90 |
Time
All in all, Nurse Betty is a wonderful movie, unpredictably alive to the fact that the American citizenry is a lot stranger than we like to admit.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
The movie has a deliberately screw-loose feel.
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| 88 |
Boston Globe
It's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances, and offbeat fun.
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| 88 |
Charlotte Observer
Betty moves into Coen Brothers territory, a land so unreal that horrific behavior wrings laughter from a disbelieving audience.
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| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
It's a nicely tart gulp of grown-up wit and cynicism -- with, for a change, a cherry on top.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
The resulting piece resonates upon the American condition, deliciously detailing the whimsy, violence, intolerance, and shallow fantasies that fuel this nation. Oh yeah, and it's funny.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
This delightful and compassionate romp achieves precisely that rare quality -- grace -- that sets Betty apart from the pack.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Nurse Betty is this year's "Being John Malkovich"-an utter original with a little something to say and a way of saying it that manages to be at once delightful and bilious.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Groovy.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
One of those films where you don't know whether to laugh or cringe, and find yourself doing both. It's a challenge: How do we respond to this loaded material?
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| 75 |
New York Post
This oddly cheerful, decreasingly dark comedy actually works and can boast some of the most enjoyable performances of the year.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
A black comedy that features Renee Zellweger as the most adorable psychiatric-trauma victim ever.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Observing Zellweger as she dispenses her brand of movie magic definitely is good for what ails you.
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| 60 |
TNT RoughCut
Worth watching.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
Betty sustains her character, the movie fails to maintain its own.
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| 60 |
Slate
A feminist sitcom tricked up with garish violence and garrulous hit men.
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| 54 |
Mr. Showbiz
Badly photographed, clumsily edited, and lacking any discernable cinematic style.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Uncomfortable hodgepodge of poignant fantasy, showbiz satire and crime thriller.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Its warped, disconnected sensibility makes for an oddly distant piece of work.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Zellweger is as charming as ever, and it's good to find LaBute working with a script by writers who don't fully share his crabbed, cramped view of human nature.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
It feels like three movies stitched together.
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| 50 |
Newsweek
There are inspired moments in this edgy, unstable comedy.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Its uneven comedy may leave moviegoers yearning for the confidently choreographed banter and moral sludge that marked LaBute's previous outings.
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| 40 |
Film.com
This fantasy-tinged romance leaves a distinctly bitter aftertaste.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
LaBute is some kind of find: an auteur for people who don't like movies.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Aimless and unfocused.
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