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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- The result is an unusual movie about acceptance, tolerance, support, sex and fun among a group of longtime female friends who meet for three weekends within a year. Women viewers are not likely to be surprised by their conversation; men may be.
- 60VarietyEmanuel LevyVarietyEmanuel LevyAn amiable, middle-brow entertainment, Chantilly Lace provides a knowing, bittersweet look at the complex lives of modern American women.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerEntertainment WeeklyKen TuckerGiven a wealth of acting talent and the freedom to improvise its way past the cliches that hobble so many films by and about women, Chantilly Lace ends up a cliche anyway: a manipulative tearjerker.
- 50The New York TimesCaryn JamesThe New York TimesCaryn JamesIt is a quirky, ambitious, praiseworthy project that somehow becomes a victim of all the cliches it was invented to avoid.
- The improv is convincing enough, and the actresses strong and loose enough, that you may really feel like you’re eavesdropping on actual conversation. And that’s intoxicating, in spots. But the chat grows so self-consciously therapeutic in this see-through “Lace” that most voyeurs will want to go peep in another TV window well before the sex talk turns to taxing teariness.