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"He's a run of the mill screenwriter who created a myth that he was an idiosyncratic rebel," says Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman.
Although many note that this is "a junior-league One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) and that the film lapses into trite battles between patients and hospital staff, the film stays mainly on target, at its best when displaying its "meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time (the late 1960's) and place (the hothouse world of upper-middle-class Boston suburbia)" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit the official site.)
More than one call it "Altman lite" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) and say "[t]he fabled Altman atmosphere fails to jell" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). A small cadre is seriously disappointed: "another footnote to an Altman career that is fast becoming all footnotes" (Richard Corliss, Time ) or, more simply, "[h]e falters again" (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). (For more on director Robert Altman, visit this site, which has links to interviews and essays about him, and read Edelstein's review Friday in Slate .)
Although it pitches itself as an hommage to films such as Heathers , Carrie , and Clueless , critics say writer-director Darren Stein "can't decide whether he's satirizing his demon heroines' homicidal indifference or celebrating it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film has only two things worth looking at: the eye-popping costumes and Rose McGowan, who has the part of the bitch-goddess down pat.
Several critics say this transition is rough but ultimately forgive the film: "If this oddly structured film feels like two short stories stuck together, there is enough solid glue joining them that they resonate off one another deeply" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly dissents, calling the film "an earnest, dogged, squarely rendered wisp of a movie."
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