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How to Deal (2003) Rank 1 Reviews
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Citysearch (J. C. Farrow)
Any melodrama that introduces both teen pregnancy and a 17-year-old's funeral within the first act would seem to have nowhere to go but up, yet this joyless exercise just wallows in empty navel-gazing. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Citysearch (J. C. Farrow)
Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Another soundtrack-driven, disposable, not entirely objectionable teen movie. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Seattle Times (Ted Fry)
Sounds like a bad episode of Dawson's Creek , but even the show's worst saga would have more emotional value than the tepid and amateurishly presented goings-on here. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Seattle Times (Ted Fry)
Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
The script ... is so cloyingly pitched to its teen-girl demographic that you would bet the thing was written on pink paper and every 'i' was dotted with a heart. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Globe and Mail (James Adams)
There's a kind of timeless, weirdly chaste 'nowhereness' to the whole enterprise, its dilemmas and behaviours as applicable to 1973 as 2003. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Globe and Mail (James Adams)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Sue Pierman)
There are some charming moments -- Moore and Ford generate heat together and charisma separately -- but director Clare Kilner desperately needed to pare down and tighten the material. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Sue Pierman)
efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Imagine Sixteen Candles as re-written by Britney Spears or Ghost World as re-written by Lizzie McGuire. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Embodies all that's wrong with the sellout culture of Hollywood. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Kvikmyndir.com (Jon Hakon Halldorsson)
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filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
You could take a camcorder to the mall, videotape strangers at random, and end up with a better movie. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Angel Cohn)
A muddled mess of melodrama. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Angel Cohn)
Orlando Sentinel (Jay Boyar)
You do need a pretty strong stomach to swallow this sappy teen soaper. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Jay Boyar)
eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
Overcrowded with characters and subplots, the film gives short shrift to the parts that should matter. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
A bad, unimaginative story posing pretentiously as the very opposite. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
TV Guide (Angel Cohn)
To call this scattered and cliché-ridden film less-than-cohesive would be generous, and Moore lacks the ability to imbue hackneyed dialogue with resonance. ...read the complete How to Deal movie review at TV Guide (Angel Cohn)
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