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The Next Best Thing

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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
"Not even Rupert Everett is able to breathe life into soapy Thing" NEG
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Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle
"If only someone had taken away that disastrous third act we'd have one of the better mainstream films dealing with the impossible societal demands put upon gay parenting yet made" NEU
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post
"Really two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them."  NEG
United StatesUnited States Entertainment Weekly "(Madonna is) clearly full of good intentions; too bad she's lacking discernible emotions" NEU
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
"A garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman's horse." NEG
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New York Post
New York Post
"If the movie were funny, the implicit sermonizing would be more tolerable" NEG
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
"A misguided romantic serio-comedy aimed at women and gay men that ends up caricaturing both" NEG
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Newsweek
Newsweek
"Screenwriter Ropelewski piles one silly plot contrivance upon another, and the characters start behaving like nitwits." NEG
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The New York Times
The New York Times
"The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality"  NEG
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