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OFCS Rating: 61% Fresh |
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| "I could have happily sat through the first half a second time, though I was barely able to sit through the second half once." |
| Blogcritics.org |
| Alan Dale |
A | "Invigorating, emotional, and visually spectacular, Dreamgirls is one of the finest motion pictures of the year." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
C | "The big screen version is a deafening muddle, pulled apart by booming vocal power, melodramatic performances, and zips through time faster than Doc Brown's De Lorean." |
| OhmyNews.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
3.5/5 | "The energetic songs come fast and quick, Condon and his brilliant cast snapping them out like there's no shortage." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Chris Barsanti |
B- | "Newcomer Jennifer Hudson owns the movie with her magnetic presence and go-tell-it-on-the-mountain voice.* ** ** *" |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Even beyond its clichéd story and familiar characters, Dreamgirls gets stuck at its most broadly representational level, exploiting even as it means to expose, repeating even as it might have offered something new, something that would give you a r" |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
36/100 | "Worse than a movie of the weak (pun intended)" |
| Apollo Guide |
| Dan Jardine |
4/5 | "This is a big, brassy, sometimes messy, often electric musical experience." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A | "Crisp direction by Bill Condon and a stand-up-and-cheer performance by Jennifer Hudson make this flick a dream." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
1/4 | "...Hudson offers up a seriously underwhelming performance..." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
C | "Aside from Jennifer Hudson's beefy performance, this black r&b musical never conveys much soul." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2/4 | "A movie musical that certainly knows how to carry a tune, but is missing a heart." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
1.5/4 | "Compare the musical numbers from Dreamgirls with Annie Ross's smoky, lived-in performances from Short Cuts and the charade of this film becomes especially apparent." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
2/5 | "Una lujosa producción que, a nivel dramático, tiene la misma profundidad que una telenovela. Eso sí: hay (alguna) buena música y una inusual actuación de Eddie Murphy." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B | "It feels superficial -- though I admit it's a pretty rousing and toe-tapping kind of superficiality." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
2/4 | "A cliché-riddled storyline populated by unsympathetic characters and songs that repetitively bleed into one another to the point where we curse Motown for the R&B movement altogether." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
C | "Though it beeps and flashes in lots of different colors, it's not actually that good, or thought through, or well-executed." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
B+ | "As triumphant on the screen as it was on the boards, though like the original, it's a triumph of style over substance." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
1/5 | "The 1981 Broadway musical lumbers onto the screen saddled with clichés from every showbiz story ever made about the rags-to-riches saga along with songs that can't hold a candle to the Motown classics." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
A | "A triumph of execution, of a marvelous narrative and iconic characters, of a dazzling score and a winning production design." |
| Modern Fabulousity |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3.5/4 | "Dreamgirls is a wonderful entertainment: a musical that, while not skimping on the music, delivers a multi-layered storyline featuring complex characters." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
2/5 | "Whatever boldness Condon brings to the project is ultimately sunk by its disappointing lack of human drama in favor of by-the-numbers rise-and-fall theatrics." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
3/4 | "Light, fizzy and bubbling with musical pizzazz." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
9/10 | "In terms of enjoying it on the basis of pure showmanship, it's perhaps the most effective musical transition to the big screen since this current movie musical mini-revival began." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
| "[Condon's] affection for the musical goes a long way toward smoothing over the bumpy spots in the narrative, though at times it creates new ones of its own." |
| Pajiba |
| Jeremy C. Fox |
7/10 | "Blandoncé Knowles." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
5/5 | "When I was a little girl, I saw a play that took my breath away and this film adaptation is more than I dreamed it could be." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4.5/5 | "Any movie that inspires an audience to clap during and after with such incredible performances is definitely worth your money." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
4/4 | "Here's a movie that's truly firing on all cylinders and never faltering." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "...as Effie White, the Dreamgirl left behind, Jennifer Hudson may have lost American Idol only to have won an Oscar." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
B+ | "...as Effie White, the Dreamgirl left behind, Jennifer Hudson may have lost American Idol only to have won an Oscar." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3.5/4 | "Murphy is a revelation as James, and what American Idol castoff Hudson lacks in technical acting craft she makes up for in raw energy and a voice that could melt the rhinestones off a beauty queen." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
2/4 | "It's loud, with lots of pretty colors, but there's nothing holding back the melodrama or making it emotionally relevant." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
4/4 | "A terrifically entertaining, ovation-worthy spectacle that results from the assembled efforts of a gifted, impassioned, invigorated creative crew." |
| Mr. Brown's Movies |
| Michael Dequina |
2.5/5 | "Unfortunately, nothing else in the film is even in the same galaxy as Hudson's song ['And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going']." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "[The director] combines solid storytelling, top-notch production design, and stylish camera/editing techniques to make you think of Dreamgirls as less a movie and more a performance." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
A- | "If my movie reviews had headlines, this one's would be: "A Star is Born." More like a Supernova." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
C | "Lacks the one quality that Marshall's sub-par Best Picture winner Chicago had going for it - an invigorating, irresistible, knockout score." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
3/5 | "Os realizadores exibem exatamente o mesmo preconceito que fingem condenar em seu longa, valorizando mais a estética do que o talento. Hipocrisia, Dreamgirls é seu nome." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
2.5/5 | "Dreamgirls” is a better musical than Chicago or Rent, but then, that isn’t really saying much." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4.5/5 | "Besides the high-energy music, the story grapples meaningfully with intense human drama, racial issues and the theme of art versus commerce." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
B | "It's possible to be a very good movie and still be overrated." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "Great performances, great singers, weak music. A mere shadow of Motown's greatest hits." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
3/4 | "(Hudson) isn't the only person in the movie, just the best; and the lightweight story about the perils of fame grows significantly heavier (from a dramatic standpoint) every time this veritable force saunters across the screen." |
| Charlotte Weekly |
| Sean O'Connell |
| "It's a product that promises magic, and yet gives us nothing to live on." |
| Salon.com |
| Stephanie Zacharek |
10/10 | "Dazzling - one of the Best Pictures of 2006. It could rival "Chicago" in the upcoming Oscar race. It's that good!" |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
2.5/4 | "Dreamgirls is undermined by its stop-start pacing and sketchily developed characters." |
| Reel.com |
| Timothy Knight |
2/4 | "This year's Brokeback Mountain in a lot of ways, Dreamgirls is the movie over which it's impolite not to fawn." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
4/4 | "A stellar cast, stunning sets and costumes and engaging music make this a modern musical for a new generation." |
| Oscar Guy |
| Wesley Lovell |
| "Click here to see review" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
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OFCS Rating: 61% Fresh |
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