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It's a mediocre movie with a very nice central performance. August 29, 2017 | Full Review…
It's a mediocre movie with a very nice central performance.
Lindy West
Cruelly, the display of sorrow never takes command, with most of the film an unsatisfactory soap opera that never seizes an illuminating essence. May 3, 2011 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Cruelly, the display of sorrow never takes command, with most of the film an unsatisfactory soap opera that never seizes an illuminating essence.
Brian Orndorf
Chastain has long red hair, wide eyes, and an even wider smile. She is Jolene, of course, and she is appealing. November 21, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/5
Chastain has long red hair, wide eyes, and an even wider smile. She is Jolene, of course, and she is appealing.
Marcy Dermansky
More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, "Jolene" remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles. November 4, 2010 | Rating: 3/5
More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, "Jolene" remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles.
Gary Goldstein
Chastain proves near-heroic embodying Jolene's innate strength and incremental wisdom. Yet she also makes us understand how the heroine's wobbly resistance to manipulative characters is overwhelmed time and again. November 4, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4
Chastain proves near-heroic embodying Jolene's innate strength and incremental wisdom. Yet she also makes us understand how the heroine's wobbly resistance to manipulative characters is overwhelmed time and again.
Tom Keogh
Based on an E.L. Doctorow short story, Jolene is an apt example of how stories about women who are in abusive relationships can be turned into sexual exploitation. November 1, 2010 | Full Review…
Based on an E.L. Doctorow short story, Jolene is an apt example of how stories about women who are in abusive relationships can be turned into sexual exploitation.
Maria Garcia
Vapid, convoluted, tedious and too episodic despite Jessica Chastain's charismatic performance as the seductive, wounded, insecure and lonely Jolene. October 31, 2010 | Rating: 4.2112/10 | Full Review…
Vapid, convoluted, tedious and too episodic despite Jessica Chastain's charismatic performance as the seductive, wounded, insecure and lonely Jolene.
Avi Offer
Jolene's main themes, including the manipulation of youth, the fragility of love, and the suppression of individuality, try to carry the wonky dialogue into complex territory. October 31, 2010 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Jolene's main themes, including the manipulation of youth, the fragility of love, and the suppression of individuality, try to carry the wonky dialogue into complex territory.
Glenn Heath Jr.
So bad it's almost (but not quite) good, Dan Ireland's Jolene is an unusually elaborate and excruciatingly long vanity production... October 29, 2010 | Rating: 0/4 | Full Review…
So bad it's almost (but not quite) good, Dan Ireland's Jolene is an unusually elaborate and excruciatingly long vanity production...
Lou Lumenick
Ms. Chastain digs deep. Surrendering to her character's smoky voice-over and disastrous judgment, the actress finds pockets of soul in a role that's part Jessica Rabbit, part Marilyn Monroe. October 29, 2010 | Rating: 3/5
Ms. Chastain digs deep. Surrendering to her character's smoky voice-over and disastrous judgment, the actress finds pockets of soul in a role that's part Jessica Rabbit, part Marilyn Monroe.
Jeannette Catsoulis
Chastain, an incandescent redhead with a heart-shaped face and round, shining eyes, does more justice to the part than it deserves. October 28, 2010 | Rating: 6/10
Chastain, an incandescent redhead with a heart-shaped face and round, shining eyes, does more justice to the part than it deserves.
Michelle Orange
Downplaying Doctorow's condescending literary and class ironies, Ireland creates something more like a queer-inflected Candide. October 27, 2010 | Full Review…
Downplaying Doctorow's condescending literary and class ironies, Ireland creates something more like a queer-inflected Candide.
Armond White
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