Frankie and Alice 2010

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Lamentably by-the-numbers, treated like an affliction-of-the-week TV movie by its eight (!) credited writers and directed by Geoffrey Sax as if he knew where commercials should go. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: Old-fashioned as a leisure suit, but better-looking and a lot more fun. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Berry shows total commitment to the part, allowing herself to go unhinged in the hands of a director not quite capable of supporting such a risky tightrope act. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's not just Frankie who is putting on a show here. Berry is also overemphatically showing off her chops. Read more

Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Frankie & Alice feels like a film that might have been groundbreaking 40 years ago but has cable-TV movie of the week written all over it in 2014. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A hokey old-school drama of multiple personality disorder based, in the tradition of The Three Faces of Eve and Sybil, on a real case study. Read more

Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter: Throughout, its exhibitionist proclivities are evened-out under director Geoffrey Sax's astute guidance and the intelligent, nuanced performances of Berry and Skarsgard. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: It's hard to see beyond Berry's forced mannerisms. She swerves from boogie-dancing tough girl to stoic matron to irritatingly voiced kid. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: It may be that this genre has been forever ruined, or just that it requires a more subtle hand than the one exhibited by Geoffrey Sax, the director here. Read more

David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: Berry has proven she's willing to take on enormous challenges, and she certainly exceeds her grasp here. Perhaps that's why Frankie & Alice plays more like an elaborate acting workshop than a movie. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: This movie, with its flashbacks to past sins and traumas, rests squarely on Berry, a mesmerizer who makes every moment count. Read more

Sherilyn Connelly, Village Voice: Frankie & Alice is lurid - again, she's a stripper - and occasionally silly in the way that so many multiple-personality stories wind up being. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: While all this channel-switching and inevitable unearthing of psychic demons generates a great awards-season clip, it doesn't necessarily lead to a satisfying drama. Read more