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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: I enjoyed this one because, rather than nitpick the director's usual lapses in logic, I allowed the sexy visuals and sumptuous set design to wash over me. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Once, De Palma seemed like a director intoxicated with the possibilities of movies; now he just seems in need of intervention. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: You don't need to take Femme Fatale seriously in order to derive great pleasure from what De Palma is up to here. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: A wonderful ride. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A feast for hard-core movie or De Palma buffs (and Romijn-Stamos junkies) but a famine for anyone looking for a good story. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Far more absorbing and tantalizing than most of the plodding, overworked thrillers the studios churn out these days. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: The film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of De Palma, but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartest, most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an American director in years. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: I found myself capitulating to its inspired formalist madness -- something I've resisted in [De Palma's] films for the past 30-odd years. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Inventive, fun, intoxicatingly sexy, violent, self-indulgent and maddening. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The story the movie tells is of Brian De Palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A uniquely De Palma kind of effluence, an exercise in auteur self-parody. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The most common audience reaction probably will be, 'Huh?' Read more
John Powers, L.A. Weekly: [Romijin-Stamos] knows her way around a wisecrack, and Femme Fatale may do for her what Basic Instinct did for Sharon Stone. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: The rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is, although it's more comedy than suspense De Palma creates. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: When [De Palma's] bad, he's really bad, and Femme Fatale ranks with the worst he has done. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is pure filmmaking, elegant and slippery. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: It's a sexy, violent, glamorous, sinfully funny movie with a surface as hard and brilliant as diamonds. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Sexy and passably entertaining, with a plot that's too clever by half. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: De Palma has provided enough ripe flesh, split-screen mayhem, and dreamlike imagery to power six films noir. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: You may loathe [De Palma's] sexual excesses and violent urges, but his images are visual catnip. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: More tawdry than titillating, what should have been sultry is more often skanky. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects, not the least of which is Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Pretty amusing when the director apes Hitchcock, and pretty awful when he apes himself. Read more