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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Only Fanning's emotional honesty makes Hounddog watchable. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Wright Penn evidently helped get the film financed, but her big scenes feel shoehorned in. This is Dakota Fanning's film. Read more
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: A bewildering slice of southern gothic hokum, it suffers from a weak script, proving that old saw about actors being only as good as the lines they're given. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Pretty but overwrought, Hounddog doesn't deserve its infamy, nor does it merit being seen or remembered. Read more
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: The problems that plague the movie land squarely with the writer, director and producer, Deborah Kampmeier, who has crafted a howler of a bad script, shows little affinity for working with actors and displays no visual sense behind the camera. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Under the circumstances, Fanning is remarkably collected and even dignified. As for the rest of the gang, they ought to be returned to sender. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: The only lesson is that if you're a child of the south, you better get yourself adopted by Yankees. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Fanning is exceptional, anchoring the film with the confidence of an actress thrice her age. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The latest wallow in regional cliche and stereotype. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Rarely has there been a movie as misguided as Hounddog, which self-righteously indulges in exploitation while loudly decrying it. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The cliches are thick as the kudzu in 1956 Alabama. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Ms. Fanning's performance alone makes Hounddog worth seeing in this age of child Duses. Read more
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: A slow procession of degradation and suffering, Hounddog is like a tall glass of bitter iced tea. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Take away the 'hound' part of the title and you have an appropriate descriptor of this production. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Dakota Fanning takes an impressive step forward in her career, but that's about the only good thing about Hounddog. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Seriously, I'm astonished that anybody would try to pass this movie off as artistically or socially meaningful in 2007. Read more
Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle: The whole distasteful mess is sunk up to its neck in a brew of Southern Gothic atmosphere and hocus-pocus sentimentality. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Hounddog is an indigestible gumbo of Southern Gothic ingredients seasoned with snake oil, biblical hash and thoroughly unpalatable spice. Read more
Michelle Orange, Village Voice: The symbolism [is] clobbering. Read more