Beautiful (2000) Critic Reviews

This film's wise and compassionate view is that, for many young women of limited opportunities, winning a beauty contest represents their best hope.Read the full review

The tame, confused script eventually sinks the film, although Field shows skill directing actors.Read the full review

Burdened with so many poky scenes that it approaches the level of the distributor's "Drowning Mona" and "Whipped," both candidates for the year's worst.Read the full review

Not one female character escapes mockery or patronizing.Read the full review

(Driver) is stuck in a mess of a movie that suffers from awkward writing, a plot with major disconnects in plausibility, an annoyingly screechy kid character and cheesy production values.Read the full review

It's a movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend not only disbelief but also intelligence.Read the full review

There's no particular reason to see this disappointingly trivial picture on the bigscreen.Read the full review

Insufferably cloying experience.Read the full review

Teeters from a noisy sitcom (only one step removed from "The Beverly Hillbillies") to brickbat satire until it collapses in a pool of redemptive mush.Read the full review