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Potiche Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    68

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Helping to keep this ship from keeling over is the great professionalism and light touch of Deneuve and Depardieu. Costars numerous times, they go together as comfortably as an old pair of gloves. Potiche very much counts on this, and it has not miscalculated.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    Like its heroine, Potiche is deceptively lightweight, its camp screwball fizziness giving way to a surprisingly cogent feminist parable, in which the personal proves again and again to be the most volatile variable in the political.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    You suspect, before long, that there is no strong reason for this production to exist, but it is reasonably good fun all the same.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety

    Eight years after the crowd-pleasing "8 Women" and a mostly impressive run of small-scale arthouse films, Francois Ozon effortlessly moves back to the mainstream with another sparkling, occasionally side-splitting adaptation of a French boulevard-theater play.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    Has plenty of contemporary sparkle and life, courtesy of a masterful central performance by grande dame Catherine Deneuve.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    An Orson Welles-size Gérard Depardieu does gallant work as the town's leftist mayor.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    There's little effort at psychological depth, and the characters float along on the requirements of comedy. But it's sweet comedy, knowing about human nature, and Deneuve and Depardieu, who bring so much history to the screen, seem to create it by their very natures.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

    Potiche is very "Touch of Class" and "House Calls" in its comic vibe and trappings, and if you're old enough to remember those Glenda Jackson rom-coms, you'll probably respond favorably to Potiche.

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Potiche is Great Satire. FRENCH! A comment on what has occur by gornyap

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