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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Little more than sexed-up soap opera in powdered wigs. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I'm sure that it's sort of a 'Fractured Fairy Tale' version of the real events that happened, but the fact that it was inspired by real-life events made me enjoy it all the more. Read more
Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: Hilary Swank and Simon Baker make an especially attractive couple who have several electrifying moments onscreen. Read more
John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune: Shyer ... exhibits little flair for the ebb and flow of a costume caper movie. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The Affair of the Necklace drags and meanders when it wants clarity and clockwork, and bogs down in hazy, vague emotions. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The result is a mess, but a fairly enjoyable one, with some gorgeous period detail. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: The Affair of the Necklace is no paperback romance or swashbuckler it at first appears to be, but rather the remarkable odyssey of a young woman who lived to tell her amazing story herself. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The film has a desperate, disjointed feel that suggests the filmmakers realized it wasn't working and kept trying, ineffectually, to fix it. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: There's no fury to the movie, repressed or otherwise, which may be why when the Revolution arrives, it has all the impact of a guillotine with a deadly dull blade. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A cheap bauble of a flick. Read more
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Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Jeanne is no fun at all. Read more
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The storytelling is hopelessly compromised by the movie's decision to sympathize with Jeanne. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: This is a good example of what can happen when a bunch of grownup humans who really ought to know better get funny ideas about art. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: [Swank's] out of her league here and her tendency to underplay -- as if she were afraid of the material and didn't want to risk anything flamboyant or bold -- makes her performance seem tentative, half-felt. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: No matter how ornate or magnificent a strand of jewels might be, it's not the most effective device to pin a story on. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: An endless illustrated Harlequin paperback of mawkish backstory and corset-popping purple prose. Read more