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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxFaithfull is marvelous: Once notorious for her own escapades, this great-great-niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is no shrinking violet, but she's perfect as a plump, frumpy widow with a huge heart and a hidden talent no one would ever suspect.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinSan Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinSam Garbarski's use of slow-motion shots is pretentious, and he paces the film too slowly. But he captures the seedy side of London, giving you a feel for Soho during the day when sunshine exposes a cheap gaudiness.
- It turns out a success, tempering its farfetched scenario with enough restraint and believability to pass for a modest parable of modern manners.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranGenially preposterous and pleasantly diverting, it balances calculation against humanity and generally comes out on top.
- 60The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIrina Palm is, for the most part, a phony trifle, but at its heart, somehow, is a real and fascinating person.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickThe demand for her services is so great that she suffers from "penis elbow," but her popularity also brings self-esteem and a possible boyfriend in her boss (Miki Manojlovic) in this lethargically directed comedy.
- 50Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThe dopey premise only takes to a gross extreme the "Full Monty" formula that the Brits have been milking for more than a decade.
- 50Boston GlobeJanice PageBoston GlobeJanice PageDoesn't deliver on a lot of fronts. But then again it gives us full-on Faithfull, who manages to bare herself completely without ever actually getting undressed.
- 40VarietyVarietyAstonishingly, pic reaped hearty guffaws at Berlinale press show, suggesting this might play best in Europe, but Anglophone auds are more likely to give Palm the thumbs down.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceNobody can reduce tawdry material to doddering quaintness like the British, but this staggeringly inane joint effort of U.K., Belgian, French, German, and Luxembourgian film financing represents a true coalition of the witless.