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Nurse Betty (2000)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:21
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Nurse Betty's script is delightfully imaginative, while both the direction and ensemble performances are excellent.
Theatrical Release:Sep 8, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $25,010,899
Synopsis: When small town waitress Betty Sizemore (Renée Zellweger) accidentally witnesses the grisly murder of her underhanded car-dealing husband (Aaron Eckhart), she copes with the trauma by retreating... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear
Director: Neil LaBute
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Top CriticIn his third, most accomplished film, LaBute puts aside the inquiry of misogyny that dominated his previous work and immerses himself in a lighter romantic fable about the collision of fantasy and reality, with a terrific performance from Renee Zelwegger
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Top CriticYou get the feeling the makers of Nurse Betty are daring you not to get the big satire they've concocted. And in place of the customary TV laugh track, LaBute simply bludgeons you over the head with jokes.
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Top CriticIn terms of the taste it leaves behind, the difference between LaBute's first two films and Nurse Betty is the difference between eating a bucket of bad clams and coming upon them deliberately placed in a seafood dinner.
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Top CriticAfter a summer of brain-numbing junk, Nurse Betty seems like a reprieve.
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Top CriticIf Nurse Betty is any indication, these slightly more commercial movies won't be mere digressions or artistic sellouts; they'll be worth the wait, even if they aren't as distinctive or as sure-footed as his more challenging personal projects.
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Top CriticNeil LaBute might have made the perfect capper for the end of the Clinton era -- a decade when the only bad lie was a badly told one.
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Top CriticThe year's most enjoyable -- and most surprising -- fairy tale.
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Top CriticWhether or not Betty sustains her character, the movie fails to maintain its own. The scenario falls apart.
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Top CriticNurse Betty's two hallmarks are originality and star quality, both of which combine to draw the viewer through the film's occasional rough spots.
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Top CriticNurse Betty is never going to be confused with Mary Poppins, but as of now, it's LaBute's crowd pleaser.
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Top CriticAlthough everyone involved is likable, especially Zellweger, the elements don't mesh.
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Top CriticThis oddly cheerful, decreasingly dark comedy actually works and can boast some of the most enjoyable performances of the year.
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Top CriticA masquerade that doesn’t work.
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