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2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Enough has been said but...., 2008-07-02
There have been so many reviews of this movie I will limit my comment to state my sheer amazement after reading the 1 STAR reviews ...
It is beyond comprehension this brilliant piece of artistry can be rated below 3 STARS by anyone.... In my mind it is one of the most socio-realistic screen plays that have ever come out of Hollywood - not due to the (perhaps overly) tragicomic characterizations but because each character represents something real in all of us... But maybe that does not resonate with those among us who prefer to see the world as black and white rather than the accumulation of shades of grey we all live and live in.
For me this is one of my top10 movies of all time and one of the very few I can watch again and again.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
From Pain To Pleasure, 2008-05-31
My girlfriend bought this movie. I didn't want to see it. I thought it was a "chick flick". It was raining outside, and I had used up all my options. Now I had to watch it.
I should have known it would be good with Kevin Spacey in it. Everything he does it great. But I had no idea it was this good. I can usually figure out the endings of most Hollywood movies these days. They are all the same: the plots, the characters, the acting, or lack of it. I knew how this one was going to end, but was totally surprised by the circumstances. Tragedy and humor...mixed to perfection.
Great movie. Don't miss it.
6 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
 The world according to drama majors, 2008-05-04
The film's ending can be predicted after the first few scenes, unless one is completely unfamiliar with cookie cutter PC cliche-laden plot lines churned out by Hollywood's scriptwriting factories. (A quick quiz: in the land of Hollywood who is the ultimate villian -- the drug pusher, the cheating wife, the near-pedophile husband ... or, the man who won't come out of the closet?) A shallow film, about shallow people, given 5 stars by shallow reviewers.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
One of my favorties from 1999, 2008-03-25
Anercian Beauty is one of the best movies I've ever seen. The film is very dark, very funny and tragic. Kevin Spacey did give a very Oscar worthy performance as did Annette Beinnig. Mena Suvair plays Angela with top notch as a young women who uses seduction for her own purposes but has her own secerets. Sam Mendes makes an amazing film his first time out. The cinematography by Conrad Ball is some of the best ever put on film.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Love it!, 2008-03-11
As evidenced by the many stellar reviews, this is a great, great film. The fact that it is so enormously popular speaks to the quiet desperation many of us sometimes feel in our mundane, humdrum lives...where most of your time is spent doing stuff you are obligated to do, not what you really want to do.
From the exterior, Kevin Spacey's character has a good job, a great house, a beautiful wife and a loving daughter. The fact is, he's miserable. I love how he is sick of keeping up appearances. I love how he decides to live life the way he wants to - telling his boss to buzz off, buying his dream car, working out and smoking pot - it's brilliant. If a lot of people were brave enough, they would probably admit that they might like to go on a similar adventure.
In short, the way the tale unfolds is sheer brilliance. The end is shocking and surprising, and very powerful. This is mandatory movie watching for any film buff.
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