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| FLAWLESS (1999) - R
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ReviewScore: 51 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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The producers of Flawless must have realized they were taking a big risk with a title like that. "Flawless is anything but," Lou Lumenick observes right off the bat in his New York Post review. Several critics, who rarely fault a performance by Robert De Niro, find his performance in this film flawed. "Robert De Niro, as a homophobic stroke victim, is fairly flounced off the screen by Philip Seymour Hoffman as a fey cross-dresser," writes Rita Kempley in the Washington Post. Stephen Holden in today's New York Times comments that director Joel Schumacher's "garish, message-laden comedy, Flawless, is so awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes. If so, that would be an unintended benefit." Of course, De Niro has his die-hard supporters as well. Jay Carr's review in the Boston Globe is headlined: "Acting and atmosphere create 'Flawless' drama." Carr calls the film "a down-and-dirty winner." |
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