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starstarstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstarstarstar Kendall Morgan - Dallas Morning News
starstarstarstar John Anderson - Newsday
starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar Elizabeth Weitzman - Film.com
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Ken Fox - TV Guide
starstarstar A.O. Scott - NY Times

It's hard to remember a film that mixes disparate, delicate ingredients with the subtlety and virtuosity of Sofia Coppola's brilliant The Virgin Suicides”

- Jonathan Foreman

[I]t trails off into weightlessness. For a study in memory, it's curiously unmemorable

- A.O. Scott

The Virgin Suicides

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We meet the five Lisbon sisters who turn to suicide to escape their insanely overprotective parents in 1970s suburbia. Based on a novel by Jeffrey Eugenides. James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Hanna R. Hall, Chelse Swain, A.J. Cook, Leslie Hayman, Danny DeVito. Director: Sofia Coppola (1999, R)

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