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Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Jane Sumner - Dallas Morning News
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar Gary Mairs - culturevulture.net
starstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
star Jon Popick - @N-Zone
star Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
star Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post

“A movie that’ll be worth checking out a few more times over the coming years”

- Mike Clark

“There’s so much wrong with this movie (not the least of which is the exclamatory cutesiness of the title) that it’s hard to know where to begin”

- Michael O’Sullivan

Holy Smoke
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Kate Winslet stars as a young Australian who joins a cult in India and engages in a power struggle with cult-deprogrammer Harvey Keitel. Pam Grier, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee, Daniel Wyllie, Paul Goddard, Tim Robertson, George Mangos. Director: Jane Campion (1999, R)
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