The Next Best Thing
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Author | Review | ||
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United States | New York Daily News | "Not even Rupert Everett is able to breathe life into soapy Thing" | NEG |
United States | 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 |
United States | The Washington Post | "Really two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them." | NEG |
United States | Entertainment Weekly | "(Madonna is) clearly full of good intentions; too bad she's lacking discernible emotions" | NEU |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "A garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman's horse." | NEG |
United States | New York Post | "If the movie were funny, the implicit sermonizing would be more tolerable" | NEG |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "A misguided romantic serio-comedy aimed at women and gay men that ends up caricaturing both" | NEG |
United States | Newsweek | "Screenwriter Ropelewski piles one silly plot contrivance upon another, and the characters start behaving like nitwits." | NEG |
United States | 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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