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Pretty Persuasion

2005

Marcos Siega

Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Ron Livingston, Jane Krakowski ...

5.7

1,450

Drama. Comedy In this sophisticated comedy, Evan Rachel Wood plays Kimberly Joyce, an intelligent, funny, precocious, and shockingly cruel Beverly Hills teenager who will stop at nothing to become famous. Believing the world is an orchestra and she is the conductor, Kimberly masterfully manipulates all those around her, including her befuddled teacher, Mr. Anderson (Ron Livingston), her father (James Woods), her friends, and even a local TV reporter ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"[It] exists uneasily somewhere between comedy and satire (...) Like 'Lolita,' this is a movie about young girls but not for them (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"An obscene, misanthropic go-for-broke satire, 'Pretty Persuasion' is so gleefully nasty that the fact that it was even made and released is astonishing"	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"Rachel Wood holds the film’s scattershot focus together through the strength of her icy, deceitful charm"	NEU
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A teenie To Die For whose flaws are superceded by a complex, compelling turn from Evan Rachel Wood (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"Where Pretty Persuasion fails as a comedy, it succeeds as a black little mood piece, thanks largely to the almost scary conviction and sociopathic calm Wood brings to her character"	NEU
United States	Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times	"It's too bad that the satire is not more pointed, because Pretty Persuasion is outrageously funny in short blasts, mainly thanks to James Woods at his most gleefully depraved"	NEU
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"An exercise in bad taste that takes itself just seriously enough to be offensive"	NEG

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