Nurse Betty Reviews

This comedy has a few violent scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Good performances all around, especially from Zellweger and Kinnear. Lots of good laughs laced with nastiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

This is easily Ms. Zellweger's finest work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

The actors hold the movie together, particularly Ms. Zellweger and Mr. Freeman, whose characters achieve a remarkable intimacy in a most unlikely situation.

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After a summer of cookie-cutter comedies and blowsy action flicks, Neil LaBute's Nurse Betty is good for what ails you.

Full Review | Original Score: A

In 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

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Despite cringing at many of Betty's deluded interactions with the residents of her final destination and the director's seeming lack of faith in the believability of many of the scenes, Nurse Betty still turns out to be entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

If I had to use just one word to describe Nurse Betty, that word would undoubtedly be...Quirky. And I mean that in a really, really good way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

In the end [it] tells us we shouldn't depend on each other... we should be glad that 'we have ourselves.' What a lonely and sad conclusion.

| Original Score: B-

Nurse Betty suffers, however, from a script that relies on jaded hit men for comic impact. We've seen it done too many times since...Pulp Fiction.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Las actuaciones son buenas, al nivel del gran elenco que se reúne, pero el guión es el que se lleva los aplausos.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

One of the finest-written surprises of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A strong contender for one of the best films of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

This bizarrely funny satire/allegory from the maker of heavier fare such as In the Company of Men works on a surprising number of levels, not the least of which is perhaps the first human Renee Zellweger performance I have ever seen.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

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| Original Score: 3/4

With Nurse Betty, Zellweger moves fully into the realm of leading lady. Her crooked mouth and mousey voice notwithstanding, I wouldn't think it would be out of the question for her to garner an Oscar nomination for this excellent performance...

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

While Nurse Betty proves that LaBute has more than one string to his bow, you can't help thinking that he makes more memorable cinema when revelling in misanthropy.

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A highly unlikely blend of savage violence, farcical humor and impossible romantic yearning, acted out with sometimes awe-inspiring precision.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Renee Zellwegger is the real star here, of course, and Greg Kinnear is very enjoyable too, but it's Chris Rock and Morgan Freeman that really won me over.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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LaBute is working from a script that's blessedly free of his mechanized story construction and showboating, faux-Mamet dialogue. And guess what? He turns out to be a fine director.

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