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starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Roger Ebert- Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstar Rita Kempley - Washington Post
starstar Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
starstar Jan Stuart - Newsday
starstar Scott Von Doviak - culturevulture.net
starstar MarkCaro - Chicago Tribune
starstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar James Berardinelli - Reelviews
star Stephen Holden - NY Times
star Wesley Morris - SF Examiner

Touts a brand of true humanism that is utterly persuasive

- Susan Stark

Seedy, grimy and unsightly as hell, even as it aspires to find the inner diva in us all, Flawless is what happens when a filmmaker has no sense of naturalism, no sense of realism and no real natural sense

- Wesley Morris

Flawless

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Robert De Niro plays a homophobic retired security guard who takes singing lessons from a drag queen (Philip Seymour Hoffman) after suffering a stroke. Barry Miller, Christopher Bauer, Skipp Sudduth, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Nashom Benjamin, Scott Cooper, Rory Cochrane. Director: Joel Schumacher (1999, R)

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