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Dueling Critics
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Arthur Lazere - culturevulture.net
starstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstar Edward Guthmann - SF Chronicle
starstar Steve Daly - EW
starstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
star Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
star Robert Horton - Film.com
star Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
star Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal

“A fine movie that plumbs [serious] issues . . . more deeply than one might suspect”

- James Berardinelli

“The film sometimes feels rushed and sometimes feels interminably overextended, never establishing a solid – or even reasonable – rhythm”

- Mark Burger

The Next Best Thing
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A drunken tryst between a single woman (Madonna) and her gay best friend (Rupert Everett) results in pregnancy and they raise the child together. Benjamin Bratt, Malcolm Stumpf, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer, Richard Whittaker, Lynn Redgrave, Kimberley Davies, Illeana Douglas. Director: John Schlesinger (2000, PG-13)
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