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80
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81
Critics' score based on 16 reviews.
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A buoyant, picaresque farce that hums with goofy energy and mines enough ideas, jokes and setups for three movies of this description.Full Review

Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

Writer-director David O. Russell's exhilarating follow-up to "Spanking the Monkey," is even wilder, giddier and more unpredictable than that irreverent debut.Full Review

Hal Hinson
Washington Post

Flirting With Disaster, like that Energizer Bunny, keeps on going. But in this case, the perpetual motion is a deliciously hysterical rush.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

Mr. Russell's wonderfully mad odyssey of a movie, in which a man sets out to find his biological parents and winds up meeting more weirdos than Alice found down the rabbit hole.Full Review

Elvis Mitchell
The New York Times

Has the sort of headlong confidence the genre requires. Russell finds the strong central line all screwball begins with, the seemingly serious mission or quest, and then throws darts at a map of the United States as he creates his characters.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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