Ellie Parker Critic Reviews
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Ellie Parker is at once hilarious and harrowing, and in being so, seems right on target.Read the full review
A good movie, fearless and true, observant and merciless. Naomi Watts was brave to make it and gifted to make it so well.Read the full review
Coffey, a tart comic mind who should cast his net farther from the 405, pads his story with more and more familiar degradations, and Watts plays each one to the hilt.Read the full review
Eventually the energy of the original short runs out and the movie coasts on fumes, but it remains surprisingly enjoyable for all that.Read the full review
Can't sustain its narrative for a full 95 minutes.Read the full review
For Ms. Watts, it is a small, brave acting tour de force.Read the full review
A splendid idea for a film goes largely wasted despite a brave performance by Naomi Watts as a struggling actress trying to figure it all out in Hollywood.Read the full review
Without Watts, Scott Coffey's feature-length expansion of his identically titled short wouldn't amount to much.Read the full review
It almost seems that Watts made a movie this intentionally scuzzy and low-rent as a severe form of penance to the gods of authenticity for the sin of making millions jet-setting around the world appearing in big, glamorous super-productions. But she goes too far in making the audience suffer as well.Read the full review
