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Nurse Betty
USA Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence, pervasive language and a scene of sexuality
Starring
Renée Zellweger,
Morgan Freeman,
Chris Rock,
and
Greg Kinnear
A film about a widow's (Zellweger) post-traumatic obsession with a soap star doctor (Kinnear).
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
John C. Richards (also story)
James Flamberg
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Neil LaBute
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 3, 2001
Video: February 27, 2001
Theatrical: September 8, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
112 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany/ USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The superb screenplay won an award at Cannes this year for good reason.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A wonderfully twisted comedy.

100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
As ever, Freeman delivers miracles; he's as good as it gets.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
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.

90
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
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.

90
Variety
Emanuel Levy
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.

90
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.

90
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
There's a shrewd satiric method to LaBute's madness, and a payoff in comedic gold.

90
Time
Richard Schickel
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.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The movie has a deliberately screw-loose feel.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances, and offbeat fun.

88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Betty moves into Coen Brothers territory, a land so unreal that horrific behavior wrings laughter from a disbelieving audience.

83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's a nicely tart gulp of grown-up wit and cynicism -- with, for a change, a cherry on top.

80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
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.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
This delightful and compassionate romp achieves precisely that rare quality -- grace -- that sets Betty apart from the pack.

80
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
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.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Groovy.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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?

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
This oddly cheerful, decreasingly dark comedy actually works and can boast some of the most enjoyable performances of the year.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A black comedy that features Renee Zellweger as the most adorable psychiatric-trauma victim ever.

63
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Observing Zellweger as she dispenses her brand of movie magic definitely is good for what ails you.

60
TNT RoughCut
Andy Klein
Worth watching.

60
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Betty sustains her character, the movie fails to maintain its own.

60
Slate
David Edelstein
A feminist sitcom tricked up with garish violence and garrulous hit men.

54
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Badly photographed, clumsily edited, and lacking any discernable cinematic style.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Uncomfortable hodgepodge of poignant fantasy, showbiz satire and crime thriller.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Its warped, disconnected sensibility makes for an oddly distant piece of work.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
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.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It feels like three movies stitched together.

50
Newsweek
David Ansen
There are inspired moments in this edgy, unstable comedy.

50
Austin Chronicle
Sarah Hepola
Its uneven comedy may leave moviegoers yearning for the confidently choreographed banter and moral sludge that marked LaBute's previous outings.

40
Film.com
Robert Horton
This fantasy-tinged romance leaves a distinctly bitter aftertaste.

30
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
LaBute is some kind of find: an auteur for people who don't like movies.

25
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Aimless and unfocused.


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