40
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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
In his observant, swiftly paced Stardom, Arcand does it all with relentless wit, high style, and a suggestion of tragedy.
75
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.
20
With a few exceptions, most of the laughs in Stardom are cheap...and worse, the ideas beyond platitudinous.
30
Stardom just doesn't have enough anger or conviction to carry it to a satisfying finish.
10
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Sitting through this barrage of all-purpose insults aimed at obvious targets was an unenlightening chore.
60
For all the film's cleverness -- and it's often very clever -- it's as thin as its heroine.
50
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.
83
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.
0
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
Tells us nothing we didn't already know, and it tells it over and over and over.