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Stepford Wives, The (2004) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Stepford Wives, The (2004) a score of 2.3214 out of 4

based on (302) reviews

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Excellent

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Very Good

(153)

Good

(113)

Fair

(31)

Poor

(0)

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Detroit News (Tom Long)

A stylish comedic re-imagining of the '70s feminist thriller, filled with witchy wit and war-of-the-sexes stingers as well as a number of delicious performances....read the complete Stepford Wives, The (2004) review at Detroit News (Tom Long)

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LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)

Contrary to recent rumors that it was a dud, the new Stepford Wives, with its chocolate-box visual style, archly heavy-handed foreshadowing and its scene-for-scene parody of the original's fright strategies (Walken's waxy menace is once again played for...read the complete Stepford Wives, The (2004) review at LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)

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stylusmagazine.com (Jay Millikan)

the Stepford Wives in some ways represents the balancing out of the Hollywood remake pendulum. On the good side, we’ve had the entertaining and sometimes truly unnerving Dawn of the Dead, while on the bad side we’ve had just about everything else...read the complete Stepford Wives, The (2004) review at stylusmagazine.com (Jay Millikan)

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The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)

Rudnick is a wit, and his script allows everyone a decent one-liner or two. But the problem with one-liners is that they only last one line, leaving a whole movie around them that needs filling in....read the complete Stepford Wives, The (2004) review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)