The Ugly Truth

By Cynthia Fuchs

Concerns about truth and untruth can't mean much in a movie called The Ugly Truth. [24 July 2009]

21

By Cynthia Fuchs

Even if card counting is legal, this gangster-style brutality plainly cannot be, yet it provides long minutes of hackneyed menace, a B-movie plot point that only underlines 21's unoriginality. [28 March 2008]

Monster-In-Law (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Though the pathologies Fonda and Lopez embody tend to be framed as individual, they are symptomatic and well rewarded. [13 May 2005]

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Like Legally Blonde, Win a Date showcases an independent-minded girl whose naïveté and credulity make her admirable. [22 January 2004]

Legally Blonde (2001)

By Cynthia Fuchs

If you pay money to see it, 'Legally Blonde' presumes, you get the joke: all this foofiness is really just a way to sugar-coat Elle's steely resolve, admirable ingenuity, and fabulous moral fiber, and -- more importantly -- to indict the entrenched gender/class/race systems that put her in her place (on top, sort of). [1 January 1995]

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