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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Too often it has the uncomfortable feel of a too-small sweater - - stretched to capacity, still not covering the territory. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: The premise -- someone trying to inject meaning into a necessarily vacuous existence -- is depressing, but there are moments of vaguely uncomfortable hilarity. The whole endeavor, however, winds up feeling flat and a bit dull. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [Watts'] performance carries this film. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The picture looks cheap and feels stretched. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Eventually the energy of the original short runs out and the movie coasts on fumes, but it remains surprisingly enjoyable for all that. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Ellie's story is as old as Hollywood, but Coffey brings to it a fresh, frenzied and often painfully raw vision in which Ellie begins to feel that her personality is as fragmented as life in Los Angeles can be. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: Watts, whose memorable audition scene in Mulholland Drive launched her into stardom, makes a glorious mess of herself playing her karmic opposite. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Ellie Parker bounces along on Coffey's deadpan capture of the no-exit, Hollywood Hills periphery of the movie industry. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: You don't have to have any actors in your life to get how killingly smart and accurate Ellie Parker is in its depiction of 24/7 navel-gazing, Hollywood-style. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: If the film had any point beyond the pitfalls of starlet-dom, though, it's long been forgotten, as the movie descends into a series of acting-class moments. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: There's the germ of a comic idea here, but most of the movie consists of acting-exercise skits that ramble on until they croak. Read more
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: Like a sputtering career, Ellie Parker pretty much goes nowhere, and it's difficult to imagine that it would be of interest to many beyond the Hollywood community. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is the movie they should show in college acting classes, instead of tapes of Inside the Actors' Studio. Read more
Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: Watts is alternately annoying, sympathetic and hilarious in the title role. She's always entertaining. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Ellie Parker stands as definitive proof of Watts' quicksilver talent and self-effacing good-sportsmanship. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: A clumsy spoof of Hollywood. Read more