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  Review by Bunny🐰🪓 ★★★½

  A clown can't be a lawyer.

  The answer is yes Kimberly yes, yes she fucks dogs..., you know how I know that because she has fucked your douchebag of a father a million times; you fucking psycho bitch.

  Pretty Persuasion follows Kimberly, a high school student, who convinces her friends Brittany and Randa to falsely accuse their English teacher of sexual assault. However, things spiral out of control when the media gets involved.

  Let's start with Kimberly, she is what you call an Alpha bitch a perfect mix of beauty that is Courtney from "Jawbreakers" and brains Tracy from "Election" but not as nearly punchable, because what she deserves is a role in "Final Destination" flick and trust me she…

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  Review by Jizzmonkey ★★★★ 1

  Evan Rachel Wood is as fetching as a popsicle on a hot summer's day.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 1

  I'm pretty sure James Woods wasn't acting. He's just like that, right?

  To call this one of the best lesbian/bisexual/queer films is just not right. To celebrate this as a great queer sex scene (even if you divorced it from its narrative context, it'd not be a great sex scene) is just... come on. One sex scene between an adult and a child is not really queer content.

  It's not that this doesn't come across at satire. It's that the satirists who made this underestimate the depth of indoctrination the audience has experienced. The caricatures presented here fail to break through the reality we live in now or 15 years ago. Whether James Woods' vulgar bigotry or the crude sexism…

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★★

  "The devil wears a grey skirt and her name is Kimberly Joyce." -Teacher,

  Cruel.

  Trigger warnings for everything because this is a cruel satire that will piss off a lot of people... but for some reason I liked it. Pretty Persuasion is cynical, and mean, and nihilistic but it satirizes an America that is cynical and mean and nihilistic so it feels appropriate. It's horrible and vapid people doing horrible and vapid things and I think the only reason it works so well is because of how unrelenting it is.

  You probably wouldn't like it.

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  Review by kowalski 🦇 ★★½

  imagine being the main character's friend & having to listen to her monologue for hrs on end about how she loves being white

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  Review by McKenzie Dohrmann ★★★★★

  My only criticism is that I didn't see this back in 2005!
  I had already fallen in love with Evan Rachel Wood back when I was 11 and obsessively watching thirteen another personal favorite movie!

  The message of this film has only become MORE poignant. Sad but true! Being raised by one abusive parent and completely neglected by the other will AT BEST SCENARIO make your child a sociopath. Kimberly Joyce is the most tantalizing sociopath I've ever seen.

  She's definitely what I'd call the anti-hero, her performance makes this movie POP. I don't want to say too much because of spoilers, but I'm sad this movie didn't do better. Not everyone can get into and appreciate dark comedies, but in my opinion this one is fire! Because it exposes many sad truthes about priorities in our society/country. And those uniforms are the cherry 🍒 on top.

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  Review by Graham Williamson ★½ 2

  A great movie villain is only as good as their enemies. When we first meet Kimberly Joyce, she's presented to us as a master manipulator, a schoolgirl Machiavelli making her way through an elite prep school. Yet her record doesn't quite back this up. Her marks include sleazy teachers, vapid schoolgirls and her own bigoted, ranting father. But they're not all idiots. Jane Krakowski plays a slick TV journalist who Kimberly successfully manipulates by - I hope you're sitting down for this - betting that she's more interested in career advancement than the truth. Sadly, the film ends before she can face off against a barrel of fish armed only with a gun, but I'm sure her scheming, brilliant mind…

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  Review by Catherine Stebbins ★★★★ 3

  am i a terrible person for loving this? because i loved this

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  Review by charlotte ★★★

  why is it always “kirsten dunst is great in this” and never, “evan rachel wood should’ve been in this”

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★

  57/100

  [originally published on my blog]

  On the one hand, I can't pretend to be completely unbiased about Pretty Persuasion, a very black comedy that opens tomorrow in New York and Los Angeles. I have slept on the fold-out couch of its screenwriter and co-producer, Skander Halim, and he, by turn, has taken one look at my couch, which does not fold out and which comfortably seats maybe 1.5 normal-sized people, and immediately announced, "There's no way in hell I can sleep on that." (I gave him the bed, which was kind of a Pyrrhic victory for him given that the mattress was delivered the next morning.) In Rotterdam two years ago, we split the cost of a rather expensive…

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  Review by Car Trouble 🚗 ★★★½ 2

  I’ve always regarded Even Rachel Wood as a talent worth checking out, but I didn’t realise how risqué and wicked one of her earlier roles was.

  At first glance, Pretty Persuasion would appear to be an alternative high-school comedy with an edge, but that edge is a fine line that, surprisingly, includes some very explicit dialogue and touchy subject matters.
  Some of it echoes the suburban flair of cult films American Beauty and To Die For, except that Pretty Persuasion is a dark satire in the face of those two, and unashamedly politically incorrect as an extra bonus.

  Rachel Woods as Kimberley can be described as a highly intelligent, super manipulative, viciously ambitious individual, with the looks and confidence to…

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  Review by Kurdt ★★★★ 3

  A film tackling every subject America doesn’t want to discuss at dinner parties: molestation, xenophobia, school shootings, the failings of their legal system and there’s a little pedophilia thrown in there, too. This is a very smart satire that’s constantly pitch black with its comedy and harbours very little hope for any of its targets. Practically no one is smart or likeable here which is refreshing; the film wants to make its points and not worry about whether its audience connects to a protagonist. It works. Think of it as a darker, slightly less good Election. The ending from a character standpoint makes no sense and goes against everything the film highlighted, but Evan Rachel Wood takes the whole film by the throat and makes that small blip excusable. It’s pretty great, a shame about that terrible poster.