Shopgirl Reviews

Meant to be bewitchingly graceful, instead comes off as half-asleep

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I'm not entirely sure how it will play to a large audience, but it might have enough charm and wit, with a dash of complicated romance, to keep one entertained.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Hasn't the brightness of a romantic comedy nor the tristesse of melodrama.

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Claire Danes has a gravitas and grace to her that hearkens back to starlets of the 1930s and '40s.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Rather than being a labeled a romantic comedy, Shopgirl is more of a coming-of-age drama

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

It's L.A. as it is today, brooding, at times thoughtful, frustrating, and populated by souls like and completely unlike Mirabelle Buttersfield.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Cutesy but never cute, syrupy but never sweet, sexual but never erotic.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The filmmakers put a good number of sweet, tender, appealing gestures into it...yet the movie comes off leaving one vaguely disappointed.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Desperta no espectador um sentimento de agradável melancolia, como aquele que experimentamos quando ouvimos uma melodia triste da qual gostamos muito.

| Original Score: 4/5

This movie nails some of the truths about the L.A. dating scene that most other movies don't go near.

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A horrible film bred from the isolation of a man at the top

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Un film qui a tous les éléments à la bonne place et dans lequel Martin propose à nouveau un mélange élégant d'une formule qu'il connaît par c%u0153ur.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

...More like a European film than Hollywood, but it's not a matter of transmitting on a frequency most Americans don't receive. It's a matter of information that's not there.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

threatens to turn into the latest update of 'Pretty Woman' (but) an inescapable undercurrent of sadness flows through the movie and through its characters, which gives 'Shopgirl' a wistful, often downright bluesy tone.

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Shopgirl is Steve Martin at his most philosophical. This romantic comedy is not like the usual Hollywood fare, but is an exploration of loneliness, isolation, expectations and reality. A bittersweet lovestory for thinkers.

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The new movie, "Shopgirl," isn't nearly as slight as it sounds. It isn't a comedy, it isn't a "chick-flick," and it certainly isn't about shopping.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

This is Claire Danes best performance since 'Romeo + Juliet.'

Full Review | Original Score: A

Watching [Dane], you think other actresses look half-alive at best. You even forget for a while that other actresses exist.

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Shopgirl stands out as an elegant work, one that provides a welcome look at love, romance, and heartbreak without the encumbrances of the usual Hollywood folderol.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

A slim, charming, romantic story, full of intentionally mild humor about strong themes -- passion, commitment, loneliness.

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