The cartoon notions of the '50s and snooty Easterners say more about Hollywood cluelessness than about the period the film condescends to...lacking the courage of its own vulgarity, Mona Lisa Smile is as tepid as old bathwater.

| Mar 12, 2018

Just what we need: a pyjama party posing as a movie.

| Dec 20, 2017

Glossy entertainment value but far from art.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2010

Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal furnish well-observed performances that frequently outshine Julia Roberts's reflex characterization in this female variant of "Dead Poets Society."

| Original Score: B- | May 12, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2005

Period dress, set design, manners and acting are fine--as is Mike Newell's direction. If only the script was less predictable.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 30, 2004

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 7, 2004

...would have been better served by characters with a little less formula than the paint-by-numbers projects so loved by these women of Wellesley College.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2004

Mike Newell directs a formulaic Roberts vehicle that isn't without its charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 60/100 | Jul 20, 2004

Mike Newell takes the road most travelled in tackling the sexual apartheid and hysteria of the 1950s.

| May 14, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 17, 2004

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 16, 2004

Smiles turn to frowns when you sense a paint-by-numbers feminist formula taking control.

| Feb 27, 2004

Devoid of enjoyment, intelligence or interest.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2004

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 27, 2004

É um pouco difícil levá-lo a sério, já que sua postura de 'filme-denúncia' soa, no mínimo, anacrônica.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 24, 2004

Considered less as a piece of entertainment and more as an argument constructed to further a feminist agenda, the film is hugely impressive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2004