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American Beauty (1999) Rank 1 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give American Beauty (1999) a score of 3.3941 out of 4

based on (357) reviews

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Excellent

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(11)

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3 Black Chicks ("Bams")

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a fortysomething burnout whose highlight of the day is the time he spends with himself each morning in the shower, feels as trapped by his now-loveless marriage to his wife Carolyn (Annette Bening) - a mediocre real estate ...read the complete American Beauty movie review at 3 Black Chicks ("Bams")

3 Black Chicks ("The Diva")

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is 42 years old and on the edge of a mid-life crisis. He is being downsized out of his job, his wife Carolyn (Annette Bening) is more concerned with becoming successful than being a wife and mother. And his teenage daughter, ...read the complete American Beauty movie review at 3 Black Chicks ("The Diva")

Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)

It is hard to name a sin that â��American Beautyâ�� does not include in its well-crafted plot. Creating a world in which a seemingly normal suburban street becomes the scene of a brutal murder, we arrive at that place by walking through the experiences ...read the complete American Beauty movie review at Cinema in Focus (Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin)

Bright Lights Film Journal

Okay, American Beauty is shallow, pretentious, smug, condescending, and parochial. It radiates the traditional show-biz contempt for the talent-free slobs who inhabit American small towns and suburbia, cut off from high-grade hemp, cutting-edge video ...read the complete American Beauty movie review at Bright Lights Film Journal

Bad Lit.com

And then AMERICAN BEAUTY comes out. In one scene, Thora Birch gets to flash the camera her 16-year-old jugs. The other teenage chick in the movie gets naked, too, but Iâ��m not sure what her age was at the time of filming (and as always Iâ��m not going ...read the complete American Beauty movie review at Bad Lit.com

eFilmcritic.com (Jack Sommersby)

Fancy packaging can't hide its hollow core. ...read the complete American Beauty movie review at eFilmcritic.com (Jack Sommersby)

MovieWeb (Joshua "Clark" Bertram)

I once heard it said that American Beauty was a film that â��changed everyoneâ��s life? It garnered multiple Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was hailed by critics as â��wickedly funny? â��near perfect? and â��an artistic masterpiece. ...read the complete American Beauty movie review at MovieWeb (Joshua "Clark" Bertram)

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