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Secret Life of Bees, The (2008) Movie Reviews

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AALBC.com (Kam Williams)

Heavily-laden with both symbolism and spiritualism, the picture relies on an array of evocative images such as queen bees and the Virgin Mary to deliver a series of subtle, yet very effective feminist messages....read the complete Secret Life of Bees, The (2008) review at AALBC.com (Kam Williams)

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)

Honey-drizzled and sticky sweet, The Secret Life of Bees is an accessible, handsomely mounted movie of one of those professionally Southern middlebrow novels riddled with platitudes and homey truisms that make the rounds of ladies’ book clubs....read the complete Secret Life of Bees, The (2008) review at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)

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EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)

The main thing I learned from "The Secret Life of Bees" is that forcing your disobedient daughter to kneel down, barelegged, on a pile of uncooked grits is mean and painful....read the complete Secret Life of Bees, The (2008) review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)

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BrianOrndorf.com (Brian Orndorf)

“Bees” is kindly enough and perhaps those who desire a less taxing time at the multiplex will swim comfortably along with the melodrama....read the complete Secret Life of Bees, The (2008) review at BrianOrndorf.com (Brian Orndorf)