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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
The core relationship is what makes the movie with this ill-advised title a well-advised choice.
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What are critics saying?
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New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
The tone moves from gently jocular (Irons appears in drag) to mystically morose (a female shaman tries to ululate up a cure), and that creates a jarring effect from which the movie does not recover.
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Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
The good news about Claude Lelouch's And Now Ladies and Gentlemen -- there's no bad news -- is that the man who made the sublimely superficial "A Man and a Woman" almost four decades ago has grown in wisdom and artistry, but hasn't lost his love of glossy surfaces.
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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
According to common usage, the French word stupide comes closer to silly than to dumb, which is how I might rationalize my affection for this harebrained, obvious, but euphoric tale.
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One part cabaret, one part travelogue, one part comic heist, one part romantic tearjerker -- and all pretty tedious.
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Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
All told, it’s two-plus hours of trinkets and baubles and clever repartée beneath a perfect summer sun and beside the whitewashed walls of Fez, not inconsequential but as ephemeral as the sky above.
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Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
Awash in the kind of pretension that only the French can get away with.
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Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
A movie best suited for a lazy afternoon or a languorous night, particularly if you're a Francophile. Charming, glamorous, emotionally suggestive but slight, it's full of beautiful and colorful people.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Ray Conlogue
For those who don't know his (Lelouch's) work, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen will be fun because his style is unique and unpredictable. But for those who have known him in better form, this one is not a must-see.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The movie is so extravagant and outrageous in its storytelling that it resists criticism: It's self-satirizing.