| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
It may be the first movie that mirrors, in its very syntax, the ''snap crackle and pop'' narcotic superficiality of the E! channel. I mean that as a compliment.
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| 80 |
TNT RoughCut
Every so often, a movie comes along that is so bad, so unfunny, so incredibly awful that it redefines how you think about film. Stardom is just such a movie.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
What makes it interesting is the story that the viewer must put together, of a model who lives her entire life -- or at least what we see of it -- in front of the camera.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In Arcand's skilled hands, this sassy assembly comes together to be a comedy, a satire and a character study that's somehow not a bit condescending.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
A naughtily funny, skin-deep satire.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
In his observant, swiftly paced Stardom, Arcand does it all with relentless wit, high style, and a suggestion of tragedy.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Denys Arcand has satiric fun with the media's way of taking celebrity culture at face value and nothing but. Eventually, though, the film becomes what it's ridiculing.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
For all the film's cleverness -- and it's often very clever -- it's as thin as its heroine.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
This film has so many good ideas, it tends to seem better after you've left the theater. But the mock TV stuff is just too faux to be funny.
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| 50 |
New York Post
A glitzy and shallow satire about shallow people.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Takes us down a familiar path without discovering anything new along the way.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Paul Cullum
With Woody Allen's "Celebrity," Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter" and MTV's "House of Style" predating it by half a decade, this is kind of like clubbing harp seals in a meat locker.
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| 40 |
Film.com
What keeps Stardom watchable is Arcand's droll humor.
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| 30 |
Mr. Showbiz
Through a messy series of news reports, interviews, talk shows, and behind-the-scenes footage, Arcand creates a cinema vérité spoof that's not nearly as penetrating or enjoyable as he thinks.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Stardom just doesn't have enough anger or conviction to carry it to a satisfying finish.
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| 30 |
Variety
Brendan Kelly
The irony is that this film about the superficiality of celebrity-crazed Western society is itself somewhat superficial.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
The satire is intermittently amusing, but Arcand adds little to the arsenal of standard mockumentary tricks, and the interesting cast doesn't get many interesting things to do.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Stardom makes its metaphor of 15 minutes seem like a lifetime.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
With a few exceptions, most of the laughs in Stardom are cheap...and worse, the ideas beyond platitudinous.
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| 10 |
Chicago Reader
Sitting through this barrage of all-purpose insults aimed at obvious targets was an unenlightening chore.
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| 0 |
Washington Post
Tells us nothing we didn't already know, and it tells it over and over and over.
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