Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

It may be the first movie that mirrors, in its very syntax, the ''snap crackle and pop'' narcotic superficiality of the E! channel. I mean that as a compliment.

TNT RoughCut by Susannah Breslin

Every so often, a movie comes along that is so bad, so unfunny, so incredibly awful that it redefines how you think about film. Stardom is just such a movie.

San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham

What makes it interesting is the story that the viewer must put together, of a model who lives her entire life -- or at least what we see of it -- in front of the camera.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

In Arcand's skilled hands, this sassy assembly comes together to be a comedy, a satire and a character study that's somehow not a bit condescending.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey

A naughtily funny, skin-deep satire.

Dallas Observer by Bill Gallo

In his observant, swiftly paced Stardom, Arcand does it all with relentless wit, high style, and a suggestion of tragedy.

Boston Globe by Jay Carr

Denys Arcand has satiric fun with the media's way of taking celebrity culture at face value and nothing but. Eventually, though, the film becomes what it's ridiculing.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

For all the film's cleverness -- and it's often very clever -- it's as thin as its heroine.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

This film has so many good ideas, it tends to seem better after you've left the theater. But the mock TV stuff is just too faux to be funny.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

A glitzy and shallow satire about shallow people.

L.A. Weekly

With Woody Allen's "Celebrity," Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter" and MTV's "House of Style" predating it by half a decade, this is kind of like clubbing harp seals in a meat locker.

Film.com by John Hartl

Stardom just doesn't have enough anger or conviction to carry it to a satisfying finish.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

With a few exceptions, most of the laughs in Stardom are cheap...and worse, the ideas beyond platitudinous.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Sitting through this barrage of all-purpose insults aimed at obvious targets was an unenlightening chore.

Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

Tells us nothing we didn't already know, and it tells it over and over and over.