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Critics Insist 'The Women' Sets Back Chick Flick's Rights Several Hundred Years [Critical Drubbings]
Gawker: defamer —
... Women. Hitting theaters tomorrow, the updating of the 1939 classic hasn't exactly electrified the critical community: Its current Rotten Tomatoes score—hovering there like a pair of neglected ovaries—is 00%. Here's what some of nation's reviewers are saying about it: · "It's finally here, and it's a major dud." [Rolling Stone] · "The Women is such an arduous patchwork of 'issues' it ends up a Frankenstein's monster of a chick flick." [EW] · "This new version of The Women fails to celebrate its characters as women. It ...
'The Women': Revisit some 1939 quotes before you see the 2008 update!
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'The Women': Revisit some 1939 quotes before you see the 2008 update! Whether or not you're planning on catching Diane English's update of The Women -- it opens this weekend; click here to read Owen Gleiberman's review -- it's definitely worth taking a few minutes and revisiting some classic, catty quotes from the 1939 original. If you're in a rush, just jump ahead to the 6:40 mark, for Joan Crawford's legendary parting shot: "By the way, there's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society outside of a kennel."
You Smell That? It's The Women
RadarOnline.com —
... " The Women is such an arduous patchwork of 'issues' it ends up a Frankenstein's monster of a chick flick." Entertainment Weekly "Watching it, you wait in vain for a moment of snappy repartee, of fresh emotion, of grace or charm or pathos. You wait, by the way, for a very long time two hours that pass like the whole 13-episode jump-the-shark season of a series on basic cable..." ...
Is The Women As Bad Of A Movie As Rotten Tomatoes Wants Us To Believe? [Critical Mass]
Jezebel —
... help as much as it should, tending too much toward one-liners that aim for raunchy whenever possible. Never particularly believable, the story quickly unravels into schematic contrivance and wish-fulfillment fantasy. The actresses all try hard to bring a project they clearly believe in to life, but that is rarely enough. It's hard to say what's sadder, that "The Women's" intended audience had to wait 14 years for a film like this or that that long wait has been almost for naught. Entertainment Weekly : The Women ...
I'll admit it: I liked 'The Women'
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I'll admit it: I liked 'The Women' I've never seen the 1939 MGM classic The Women , which is, apparently, why I am the only person who's enjoyed the Annette Bening-Meg Ryan remake.* (Read Owen Gleiberman's C-grade review. ) I understand why critics compare the new film, written and directed by Murphy Brown writer-producer Diane English, to the original. Obviously. But since I don't have that benefit/burden, all I can say is: I laughed. Way more than I laughed at Diane Keaton in ...
