Beautiful Girls Reviews

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Todd McCarthy
Variety
March 26, 2009
This startlingly uneventful compendium of thick-headed boy-talk and female tolerance squanders a fine cast on incredibly ordinary characters and situations.
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Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
June 18, 2002
It's the women who break the monotony of this dudes-in-flux saga...
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Jack Mathews
Los Angeles Times
February 14, 2001
The dialogue isn't the only problem with Beautiful Girls. The characters are bad, too.
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Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews
January 1, 2000
With better editing (Jeffrey Wolf) and directing (Ted Demme) the movie could have survived the script, but alas it was not to be.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner
January 1, 2000
The truth is it's just not fun to watch people make excuses for themselves.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide
January 1, 2000
Watching these guys struggle with an idea is like watching a dog trying to get to that unattainable itchy spot. Funny, but pathetic too.
Original Score: 62/100
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
January 1, 2000
Borrowing heavily from other, better films, director Ted Demme and screenwriter Scott Rosenberg give each of their male protagonists a case of commitment angst.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Madeleine Williams
Cinematter
January 1, 2000
While apt at times, often it seems overwrought and muddled.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
Chris Hicks
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
January 1, 2000
A routine entry in the genre, with nothing in particular to recommend it, aside from an attractive cast.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
February 9, 1996
There is absolutely nothing going on in Beautiful Girls that you haven't seen... [in] any other artistic endeavor in which untethered young men and women, bound by geography and fortified by beer, shamble their way toward overdue maturity.
Full Review | Original Score: C+