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45
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An obscene, misanthropic go-for-broke satire, Pretty Persuasion is so gleefully nasty that the fact that it was even made and released is astonishing. Much of it is also extremely funny.Full Review

Stephen Holden
The New York Times

It's too bad that the satire is not more pointed, because Pretty Persuasion is outrageously funny in short blasts, mainly thanks to James Woods at his most gleefully depraved.Full Review

Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times

In a star-making performance, Evan Rachel Wood stars as essentially a younger version of Nicole Kidman's media-age femme fatale from "To Die For," an aspiring 15-year-old actress who hides a sharp, calculating mind behind a façade of vapid, chattering self-absorption.Full Review

Nathan Rabin
The Onion (A.V. Club)

Isn't so much awful as it is self-conscious, overdone, shallow, and just not up to the level of its star.Full Review

Janice Page
Boston Globe

So the movie is daring, and well-acted. Yet it isn't very satisfying, because the serious content keeps breaking through the soggy plot intended to contain it.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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