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The film lacks focus and energy, the character development is facile and thin, and what about those necklines?
It's not that this is lousy entertainment, it's just that it's a Serious Topic given unnecessary Celebrity Sheen.
Smart, savvy, funny, and, at times, poignant.
Julia Roberts winner. R mostly for language.
Julia Roberts has never been more fragile or stunning. And by oncerning itself with truthful consequences of its characters' self-sacrifices, the film succeeds as a drama as much about the passion of personal investment as the pursuit of justice.
In this Oscar-winning fairytale, combining traits of Norma Rae and Karen Silkwood, Julia Roberts is at her most winning and sexiest as the lone-figher against the system; that it's inspired by an actual case makes it more fun to watch.
An example of Hollywood entertainment done with finesse and compassion, the way it always should be but so often isn't.
It would have seemed impossible to me that a writer could take such a worn-out premise and make it enthralling, but this guy has done it.
It's hard to imagine another actress pulling this off without appearing sleazy.
With director Steven Soderbergh at the helm and Julia Roberts in the title role, the movie breezes by enjoyably without so much as a grandstanding speech or an awkward moment.
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