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I love "Confessions of a Shopaholic"! It's so hilarious. We were laughing every minute watching. The story is great. I even cried in the scene near the ending. Isla Fisher, Krysten Ritter, and all the cast played their characters really...
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I love "Confessions of a Shopaholic"! It's so hilarious. We were laughing every minute watching. The story is great. I even cried in the scene near the ending. Isla Fisher, Krysten Ritter, and all the cast played their characters really well. I recommend this to anyone who likes comedy, fashion, or both.

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Posted mar 7, 2009 10:19 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  91
  Breathless and petite yet powerfully in-your-face, Fisher combines dizzy femininity and no-nonsense verve in the manner of a classic screwball heroine. She's like Carole Lombard reborn as a tiny angel-faced dynamo.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  75
  If cheesy, feel-good riches-to-reason romantic comedies are yours, this is your fix. It's a harmless indulgence that, like shopping, may make you feel good for the short term, but later you'll need more.

  by Athima Chansanchai | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  63
  It glories in its silliness, and the actors are permitted the sort of goofy acting that distinguished screwball comedy. We get double takes, slow burns, pratfalls, exploding clothes wardrobes, dropped trays, tear-away dresses, missing maids of honor, overnight fame, public disgrace and not, amazingly, a single obnoxious cat or dog.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  This movie has no light to shed on the matter. It is its own contradiction: a film about confessions in which nothing much is confessed.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  63
  As unrealistic as the talking mannequins, but we're pleasantly surprised by how good this movie makes us feel.

  by Krista Soriano | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  58
  The degree to which Shopaholic actually works is a testament to the looks, charm, and comedic chops of Fisher, who stole "Wedding Crashers" and has a gift for slapstick that places her somewhere between Téa Leoni and Lucille Ball in the pantheon of foxy redheaded physical comediennes.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  50
  Rebecca may owe everybody for everything, but Fisher definitely owns the movie. She is the only one outside of Ritter who gives a bona fide performance.

  by John Anderson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  As a young lady who can't say no to a beautiful dress or accessory, Isla Fisher is not to be denied, and her irrepressible comic personality overcomes a number of the film's impediments.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  50
  The problem nipping at the designer heels of Confessions is not the state of the economy but, rather, the film's predictability.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  50
  The film's recycled nature is most evident in director P.J. Hogan's attempt to marry the farcical hijinks of an "I Love Lucy" episode to an addiction scenario that would not be out of place in "The Lost Weekend."

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  50
  Confessions is no more than a painless time-waster. But the beguiling Fisher is well worth the investment.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  50
  Though you might wonder whether there's room in a movie marketplace that already feels overstocked with romantic comedies, Confessions of a Shopaholic arrives fashionably late and dressed to kill.

  by Betsy Sharkey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  42
  It's not the retro attitudes in "Confessions" that bother me (at least not much). It's the lack of laughs.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  40
  There are some mildly amusing turns from costars like Kristin Scott Thomas, playing an icy editor, and Robert Stanton, as her frustrated debt collector.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  38
  The problem with Confessions of a Shopaholic isn't conspicuous consumption. It's ostentatious idiocy.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »