The Notorious Bettie Page Reviews

Movie Reviews

• while Gretchen Mol delivers a delightfully exuberant lead performance, the film itself seldom goes beyond skin deep

  by Michael Rechtshaffen [The Hollywood Reporter ]

• surprisingly funny, intermittently quite sexy, and simply gorgeous to look at.

  by Scott Weinberg [EFilmCritic ]

• more than just a tasty morsel of eye candy

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• frisky and fascinating biopic

  by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• doesn't probe very deeply into Page's bizarre mixture of exhibitionism and piety

  by David Denby [The New Yorker ]

• affectless, pointless movie

  by Shlomo Schwartzberg [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• a thesis movie that aims for the mind, but never captures Bettie's soul

  by Jeremiah Kipp [Slant Magazine ]

• a purely fun picture that neither apologizes nor psychoanalyzes nor points fingers

  by Donald Levit [ReelTalk ]
• Reviewed by Edward Douglas [Comingsoon ]
• Reviewed by Mel Valentin [Movie-Vault ]
• Reviewed by Eugene Novikov [Film Blather ]
• Reviewed by [Cinema Signals by The Filmiliar Cineaste ]
• Reviewed by Keith Phipps [The Onion A.V. Club ]
• Reviewed by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News ]
• Reviewed by Bonnie Fazio [Reel ]
• Reviewed by Marc Savlov [Austin Chronicle ]
• Reviewed by Jack Mathews [New York Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Allison Benedikt [Chicago Tribune ]
• Reviewed by [E! Online ]
• Reviewed by Jonathan Rosenbaum [Chicago Reader ]
• Reviewed by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]
• Reviewed by Chris Cabin [Filmcritic ]
• Reviewed by Warren Curry [Entertainment Insiders ]
• Reviewed by Eric Lurio [Greenwich Village Gazette ]
• Reviewed by Jan Stuart [Newsday ]
• Reviewed by William Wolf [Wolf Entertainment Guide ]
• Reviewed by Troy Patterson [Slate ]
• Reviewed by Jim Ridley [City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul ]
• Reviewed by Jean Lowerison [San Diego Metropolitan ]
• Reviewed by Travis Mackenzie Hoover [Exclaim! ]

Reader's Reviews

How many stars? 1 [Very Bad] 2 3 4 5 [Excellent]

   

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