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Dominican Rep. Lovely & Amazing
155
Drama. Comedy
The Marks family is a tightly-knit quartet of women. Jane is the affluent matriarch whose 3 daughters seem to have nothing in common except for a peculiar sort of idealism. Setting the tone of vanity and insecurity, Jane is undergoing cosmetic surgery to alter her figure, but serious complications put her health in real danger. Former homecoming queen Michelle, the eldest daughter, has one daughter of her own and an alienated, ... [+]
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"Here is a movie that knows its women, listens to them, doesn't give them a pass, allows them to be real: It's a rebuke to the shallow 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood.'" | POS |
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"Emerges as something rare, an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one. It earns its thesis statement through minute details and a unique grasp of a commonplace problem." | POS |
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"Like the best of personal, independent cinema -- it is both marvelously observed and completely individual. There is no film like this film, and that is something you don't hear every day." | POS |
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The Washington Post | "Holofcener is honest enough to present human foibles, not just as weaknesses but as unexpected sources of humor and strength." | POS |
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"Holofcenere genuinely wants to make pictures that plug into an audience's need for intimate contemporary comedies. But she doesn't do enough to quench that thirst." | NEU |
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"Warm, funny and often brutally honest profile of an aging divorcee and her three very different daughters." | POS |
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"[It] zeroes in on contemporary narcissism and its fallout with a relentless, needling accuracy. | POS |
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