Recent reviews

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  Review by dollypartons ★★★

  This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I've seen this film many times, and it's got a little special place in my heart as my first Barbra film, seen before I even liked her, and it's quite enjoyable. The crackling wit of the screenplay has added quite a few lines to my vocabulary, and Lauren Bacall deserved her Oscar nomination for her performance in the film. The premise is interesting, and the love theme at the end is a classic. However, one cannot ignore that the film is basically a vanity project. Even frumpy Rose is lit in a flattering manner that doesn't really allow us to truly appreciate the later transformation. But if you can ignore that, you'll find yourself enjoying the film for what it is.

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  Review by cmleidi ★★★½

  The film has so many great individual scenes, but the movies has a few clunkers that detract from the whole. A little pruning would have made this such a good film.

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  Review by weak lungs

  Shedding tears to a Barbra Streisand movie... I've hit a new low. This one is really rotten to the core. It appears Babs does movies to make herself look WILDLY intelligent, emancipated, kooky and at the end DEVASTATINGLY attractive so she can brilliantly point out how looks don't matter. tra la. I still sort of enjoy her obnoxious love for herself and the guys she drools over in her movies... ahgggh. Bridges <3

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  Review by tazy ★★★½

  Antes que Betty la fea, fue esta película que es fantástica. Y Gran Gato, qué guapo era Bridges.

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  Review by Ben Millett ★

  Bad.

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  Review by Amanda_N_Brown

  Romance

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  Review by andrew666 ★★½

  I call this the mirror is covered with feces

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  Review by Viva Laserdisc ★★★★★

  I don’t know what I had expected in this movie, but it was an unexpected gem of a film that some people on twitter had told me was a downer of a movie. Now, I didn’t see any part of this movie as a downer. A professor who thinks sex is a way to ruin a relationship and happiness looks for a mate that he is mentally his equal but that he is not attracted to. Bridges enters a marriage of companionship with Streisand without the benefits, but when she decides to want the benefits, he freaks out. Do these two find the happy medium between friendship and sex with each other? That is a question that is answered when you watch the movie. It is definitely and watcher and I am glad I own. I think this film has made it to my top 5 Streisand films.

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  Review by Blenderovski ★

  Please don't make me watch this again.