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(1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 13% Rotten Page   1   C "As the family tree in desperate need of psychological pruning, Fonda, Huffman, and Lohan are flawless in their execution of familial breakdown."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf "Careless and predictable, Georgia Rule offers up the abuse victim's "sexy" acting out as alternately beguiling and blameworthy."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs B- "Playing a teenage tramp is not the best way to adjust a degrading public image. Georgia Rule."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2.5/4 "...it's ultimately difficult not to be drawn into the soap opera-ish exploits of the central characters."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "Even when the lack of forward motion in the narrative shines through, Georgia Rule is worth watching for Lindsay Lohan alone."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D+ "Sloppy and awkward and inappropriate, as if the most insensitive student in the class was put in charge of the report on a sensitive subject."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "Lohan's an extremely talented actress when she wants to be and it's roles in films like Mean Girls and Georgia Rule that proves she can be one of the great ones."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 1/4 "It's a comedy about sexual abuse, or at least it tries to be, and fails at with flying colors..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. D- "A berserk combination of tasteless comedy and even more tasteless melodrama."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A family drama that flies all over the place and does not do justice to the serious ethical issues it raises."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "The central problem with the movie isn't that it deals with several hot-button topics, but that it addresses them with a shocking lack of emotional honesty."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1/4 "A messier-than-thou melodrama that's guaranteed to repel."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 4/10 "The casting almost feels like some kind of cruel joke on Lohan."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 2/5 "click for full review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/5 "The characters would be better off on the set of The Jerry Springer Show than anchoring their own film."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 1.5/4 "If you're able to ignore all the lameness around it, some of this is actually enjoyable in a so-wrong-it's-right, Showgirls-style way."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest 1/4 "A lighthearted romp about sexual abuse, alcoholism, and familial angst, and, as if that weren't bad enough, the movie wants to be taken seriously."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik D- "The subject matter in Georgia Rule--sexual abuse and alcoholism, for starters--lends itself to drama, but Garry Marshall's tone deaf direction and Mark Andrus' sloppy script play it as comedy."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[C]elebrates acting like a selfish bitch, being reflexively promiscuous, and screaming a lot at everyone around you as the best way to overcome years of abuse: sexual, emotional, whatever. Try it, it's fun!"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/5 "Just another Lifetime movie given a theatrical run due to the fact that it somehow pulled in bigger stars than it deserves."   Film Threat   Michael Ferraro 2/5 "The only people who would be attracted to actually watching this film aren’t going to be able to watch it anyway."   Film Threat   Michael Ferraro 2.5/4 "There is enough to admire here that you may agree it's worth a look. At the same time, the film doesn't emotionally satisfy as strongly as it should. One thing's clear though: this is Lohan's picture, and she walks away with it."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "Minow rule: If Hector Elizondo barely makes an appearance in a Garry Marshall film, watch out. If the only place Marshall can find for him is a few seconds on screen as a character with a funny name, the movie is in trouble."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/4 "So facile that it posits "I love you" as the quick-fix remedy for its characters' myriad, deeply rooted grievances."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager D "It might have helped to put as many women behind the camera as we see behaving badly in front of it."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 1.5/5 "The most insensitive comedy ever about alcoholism or the softest drama ever about child molestation."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "It's Fonda who represents the movie's real lost opportunity. Now that she's back, which filmmaker is going to win the prize for figuring out how to put her gifts, and her looks, to use?"   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 5/10 "Convoluted, contrived and cliche'-ridden, evoking Robert Frost's "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.""   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 3/10 "A fluffy comedy about a young woman who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 1/4 "Frankly, it's a wonder that stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman didn't belly up to the bar alongside Lohan, once they read Mark Andrus' screenplay, an atonal, ersatz mix of garden-variety family dysfunction and rank 'chick flick' clichés."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 13% Rotten Page   1