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90
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Bewitching.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
(Coppola) has the courage to play it in a minor key.
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88
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Boston Globe Jay Carr
From start to finish there's a shimmer of discovery about it - our discovery of it, Coppola's discovery of how much she can do.
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80
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Coppola gives Suicides a haunted quality that is undeniably affecting, a feeling intensified by a wonderfully funny and touching Dunst.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Coppola infuses her movie with a dreamy poetic tone, and deftly translates the essential metaphors of youth, sexuality and death without sacrificing an earthy humor.
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75
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USA Today Mike Clark
In contrast to big-screen bummers we see every week, this movie conveys genuine sorrow.
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70
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Successfully venturesome, but you need to know that it's also a real downer.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Glum and preposterous -- an operatically stilted adolescent martyr fantasy -- and yet, as staged by Coppola, it's well worth seeing.
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60
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
Except perhaps for Lux, who, like The Virgin Suicides itself, is a hothouse flower perishing for want of sunshine and fresh air.
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60
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
While not exactly a cop-out, Virgin may leave some viewers who crave traditional closure with the same hollow ache described by the narrator as follows: "What lingered after them was not life but the most trivial list of mundane facts."
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