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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: You can see what they are striving for, but Georgia Rule is so artificial, it feels like more of a flow chart than a slice of life. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: As an acting showcase -- the supporting roles are as rich as the leads -- Georgia Rule is undeniably one of the year's best American dramedies. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Maybe Georgia Rule should be required viewing for Paris Hilton during her term in the slammer. But not for us. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The confused script trades in such heavy topics as alcoholism and child sexual abuse, but every dramatic scene plays like one of those schmaltzy Happy Days moments that inevitably drew a big 'Awwwwww!' from the studio audience. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Certain words should be reserved for special occasions. 'Abysmal' is one of them, and Georgia Rule is as special as such occasions get. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's the sort of you'll-laugh-you'll-cry drivel that's so beneath its talented cast you have to wonder how everyone ended up here -- sort of like Custer and his Last Stand. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Director Garry Marshall has too much confidence that he can match the weighty issues here with the light comedy. He can't. Or at least he can't with this cast. Read more
Suzanne Condie Lambert, Arizona Republic: Director Garry Marshall's comedy-drama suffers from an unfortunate role reversal. The comedy is stunningly unfunny, while the drama is sometimes disturbingly funny. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Georgia Rule is a bad idea dreadfully executed -- On Golden Pond with fellatio jokes and whimsical incest melodrama and Fonda playing her dad (who, more and more, she eerily resembles). Read more
Lael Loewenstein, Los Angeles Times: With a different tone -- or in different hands -- its dark and light elements might have managed to coexist rather than vie so awkwardly for attention. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's the kind of small-town movie that looks as if it was made by people who never set foot outside Hollywood. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: There's little gussied up in this surprisingly tart mother-child-grandchild reunion picture, written by Mark Andrus. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Lohan hits a true note of spiteful princess narcissism. Unfortunately, it's the only note the film allows her to play. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: If there is a 'What Were They Thinking?' Hall of Shame, there's a whole wall preserved for Georgia Rule, a feel-good, mothers-and-daughters comedy about child sexual abuse. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: In the end, it's just another concoction of unbelievable characters doing unbelievable things, and telling us nothing we haven't heard before. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A murky blend of melodrama and comedy. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Misguided at best and repellent at worst. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Do not take your mom to Georgia Rule unless she's Roseanne Barr. You may expect a three-generational chick flick, but what you get is a child-rape comedy. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Time for a new book by Jane Fonda, and this time I expect a full chapter on how she got snookered into doing Georgia Rule. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Well-acted, sometimes amusing but flat-out tone-deaf. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The American public likes nothing better than a tragedy with a happy ending, William Dean Howells observed. But Marshall so cautiously downplays the tragic elements of his plot that the sweetness and light left a sour taste in my mouth. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The central problem with the movie isn't that it deals with several hot-button topics, but that it addresses them with a shocking lack of emotional honesty. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's Fonda who represents the movie's real lost opportunity. Now that she's back, which filmmaker is going to win the prize for figuring out how to put her gifts, and her looks, to use? Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's a creepy, tone-deaf movie about three generations of women. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Opening with a raunchy but light comic tone, the story veers into queasy territory. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: It's a shame Lohan's best work to date is bogged down in a film that wants to be in the same league as Terms of Endearment but is only marginally better than Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Not to excuse her apparent lack of professionalism, but can you blame Lohan for showing up to work in bad shape? Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: You'd think that decree No. 1 for a movie about rules would be to know exactly what kind of picture you're making and selling. Georgia Rule fails that basic test, and a whole lot of other ones besides. Read more
John Anderson, Variety: The subject matter is grim, the relationships are gnarled, the worldview is bleak, and, at any given moment, you suspect someone's going to be hit with a pie. Read more
Ella Taylor, Village Voice: Three noisy women and a worn-out premise rattle around in Georgia Rule, an incoherent dramedy of rampant parental insufficiency from director Garry Marshall. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Combines battleship actresses of the Steel Magnolias variety, fall-down-go-boom comedy that was obsolete in the '30s, Lindsay Lohan's cleavage and intergenerational fondling just for kicks. Read more