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90
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
A witty, raunchy comedy, which proves that a well-written piece of business - oozing with sex, wit and nasty intrigue - works for any generation.
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80
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The original was about social manipulation as blood sport. Amazing how easily it transports, themes intact, to our blighted decade, and to our children.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It crash-lands with an ending of soppy moralizing, but until the end, it's smart and merciless in the tradition of the original story.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Never shocks or even offends by ascribing fully adult cruelties and erotic activities to obnoxious kids; such harshness wouldn't flatter a cast this moussed and magazine-layout-ready.
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50
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
You have the queasy sense that the whole thing is just an elaborate stunt, and in this case an exploitative one.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
It is maliciously entertaining, up to a point.
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50
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Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
As Cruel Intentions progresses, you may come to realize that if a bomb suddenly blew up everyone on screen, you wouldn't particularly miss anyone.
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50
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San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
It's fun, but the blatant, obvious kind that mistakes allusive cool for mature filmmaking and subtle ideasmanship.
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38
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
No amount of youthful charisma can alter the fact that, in the light of "Dangerous Liaisons", Cruel Intentions is a feeble and dissatisfying shadow.
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20
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's not the trite talk that sends Cruel Intentions into a tailspin, it's the lightweight casting.
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