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slate.com - 17 days ago

Sorry, I didn't like Precious.

— slate.com — Harshing on Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate Films), the awkwardly titled Lee Daniels adaptation of an "urban fiction" best-seller, makes a critic feel almost as mean-spirited as Mary, the monstrously abusive mother of the ... Sorry, I didn't like Precious.

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insidemovies.moviefone.com - 17 days ago

And the Oscar Buzz Goes to ... 'Precious'

— insidemovies.moviefone.com — If Oscar buzz were directly proportional to the length of a film's title, then the success of 'Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire' would be a foregone conclusion. Of course awards season predictions are never quite that simple, and it's a ... And the Oscar Buzz Goes to ... 'Precious'

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tonicgossip.com - 14 days ago

“Precious” Makes Box-Office Record on Limited Release

— tonicgossip.com — The highly anticipated inner-city drama "Precious: Based On The Novel 'Push' By Sapphire" was the biggest hit at the box-office weekend. With its limited release at 18 theaters, the Oprah Winfrey-Tyler Perry produced film garnered an outstanding $1.8 million, scoring an average of $100,000 ... “Precious” Makes Box-Office Record on Limited Release

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Awards Daily:  Precious — What Matters, What Doesn’t

Jezebel:  Precious Is Heartbreaking, Hopeful [Critical Mass]

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RT @villagevoice: "Precious," the film diary of a sad black woman, is alternately exhausting and exhilarating http://bit.ly/PKrZO 16 days ago

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Precious — What Matters, What Doesn’t
Awards Daily — ... by Drew McWeeney at Hitfix worth a read.  And here, Scott Foundas of the Village Voice is one New Yorker who went another way – high praise for Mo’Nique and for Sadibe: ...

Precious Is Heartbreaking, Hopeful [Critical Mass]
Jezebel — ... like I need to sink into a depression coma for two hours watching a fat, illiterate, HIV-positive Harlem girl get knocked up (twice) by her daddy, brutally battered by her mother and laughed at by a world eager to pound abuse on her 16-year-old ass." Won't you dickheads be surprised. Precious ... tunnels inside your head, leaves you moved like no film in years and then lifts you up in ways you don't see coming. Despite the pain at the story's core, the movie has a spirit that soars. The Village Voice Hothouse melodrama one moment, kitchen-sink (and frying-pan-to-the-head) ...