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A Good Woman (2005)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:8
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: This adaptation of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan lacks bite due to liberties taken with the source material, coupled with uneven performances.
Theatrical Release:Feb 3, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $97,060
Synopsis: Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson fight over the same rich young man in this sumptuously elegant and loose adaptation of Oscar Wilde's LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. The setting for the action is moved... [More]
Starring: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Moore
Director: Mike Barker
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02/18/06
Top Critic... willfully odd movie ...
02/17/06
Top CriticSomething is wrong with A Good Woman: The lightning never strikes. It's never quite alive.
02/03/06
Top CriticWilde isn't supposed to be lovely, or charming. He's supposed to be funny, wicked, rude and as full of serious feeling as a lavender butterfly.
02/03/06
Top CriticA Good Woman is such a dreary affair that it makes you wonder whether the last Wilde adaptation -- the critically lambasted The Importance of Being Earnest with Reese Witherspoon -- was really that bad after all.
02/03/06
Top CriticBesides the consuming, universal glibness of its characters, A Good Woman is also undermined by some ditsy casting.
02/03/06
Top CriticA Good Woman won't ruin anyone's day, but it won't make anyone's either, and it won't get the great Irish playwright anything like the admiration his work deserves.
02/03/06
Top CriticFor those in the mood for love, A Good Woman is more than good. It's one of the best films of the new year.
02/03/06
Top CriticRarely have so many regularly employed professionals created something so utterly undistinguished as A Good Woman.
02/03/06
Top CriticFor the eyes, it's a cinematic banquet filled with the colors, wardrobe and scenery of 1930s Italy. For the mind, it's a sleek, intelligent story about love and money.
02/03/06
Top CriticA Good Woman above all lacks the joyful, lucid anger that lights up Wilde's plays -- the sense that beneath the witticisms he's telling it like it is to people who aren't used to hearing it.
02/03/06
Top CriticThe source material and supporting actors make A Good Woman a fairly good movie. But the performances by Helen Hunt as an aging seductress and Scarlett Johansson as a young bride are closer to mediocre.
02/02/06
Top CriticAll the fun in A Good Woman occurs off in the corners, while the action in center-frame does little to capture your fancy.
02/02/06
Top CriticA clever rearranging of Oscar Wilde's first great play, Lady Windermere's Fan.
02/02/06
Top CriticA Good Woman has the will to adapt Wilde to a fresh milieu, but not the way.
02/02/06
Top CriticThis misbegotten adaptation of Oscar Wildes 1892 comedy Lady Windermeres Fan lacks Wilde's high-toned repartee.
02/02/06
Top CriticIt might be empty calories, but A Good Woman is a tasty bonbon, the equal of the recent film version of Wilde's An Ideal Husband.
02/02/06
Top CriticThe film has been relocated from 19th century London to Italy's Amalfi coast in the 1930s, the resort backdrop and the randiness of the female characters giving the enterprise a sort of 'Girls Gone Wilde' feel.
02/02/06
Top CriticThe movie's attempt to update the play from Victorian England to 1930s Italy is so clumsy, tedious and pleased with itself that you wish Wilde himself would return from the dead to fire a few cogent, lethal bon mots at its backside.
02/02/06
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