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Rocko5820

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It was, okay. I dont think it sucked, but it was kinda weird.

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Posted may 26, 2008 10:40 am pt

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0Stars! It sounded good but boy were we mistaken! My girl and I saw this together and it was the worst movie I had ever seen. I have seen thousands, in fact I have gone to the movies every day for the past month. Anyway this movie lacks a strong...
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0Stars! It sounded good but boy were we mistaken! My girl and I saw this together and it was the worst movie I had ever seen. I have seen thousands, in fact I have gone to the movies every day for the past month. Anyway this movie lacks a strong decent storyline. No action unless you consider yelling an action, as for romance if you can even call it that was dull. best part of this movie was when my girl and I walked out, and yes we did see it through till the credits.

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Posted jan 14, 2008 5:45 am pt

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0-Stars! It sounded good but boy were we mistaken! My girl and I saw this together and it was the worst movie I had ever seen. I have seen thousands, in fact I have gone to the movies every day for the past month. Anyway this movie lacks a strong...
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0-Stars! It sounded good but boy were we mistaken! My girl and I saw this together and it was the worst movie I had ever seen. I have seen thousands, in fact I have gone to the movies every day for the past month. Anyway this movie lacks a strong good/decent storyline. No action unless you consider yelling an action, as for romance if you can even call it that was dull. best part of this movie was when my girl and I walked out, and yes we did see it through till the credits. I wouldn't make my worst enemy watch this.

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Posted jan 14, 2008 5:44 am pt

• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  The movie is a little more lightweight than the usual People's Choice Award winner at Toronto, but why not? It was the best-liked film at the 2006 festival, and I can understand that.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  Cynics need not apply, but I found Bella a real heart tugger.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  A tearjerker that earns its sobs with heartfelt emotions.

  by Ruthe Stein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  May have more heart than head, but it's also just as interesting for what it leaves out of its romantic story as for what it retains.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  Bella is, indeed, a beautiful film. The bustling, cab-crowded thoroughfares of New York City have rarely looked as inviting and the coastline as momentously beachy as they do in this film.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  50
  Well-acted first-feature.

  by Ken Fox | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  Mexican-born helmer Alejandro Monteverde's debut will be remembered as a curious case of a mediocre film that wows crowds.

  by Robert Koehler | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  50
  The melodrama and cheap theatrics of the story's off-center segments drag the whole thing down.

  by Tasha Robinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  50
  Certainly a sweet, life-affirming picture, but it's just not authentic or captivating enough to justify its wildly concocted scenario.

  by Gary Goldstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  50
  What are you going to do when your lead actress offers a performance that's as unlikable as the woman she's portraying? Maybe it's the script (flimsy, formulaic), or filmmaker Alejandro Gomez Monteverde's conspicuous direction, but Tammy Blanchard's Nina, a waitress with a dour disposition and an unwanted pregnancy, pretty much sucks the life out of this well-meaning melodrama.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  50
  In stories like this defiantly unsubtle, structurally clunky specimen, causes women who are considering abortion to think again, and self-selecting audiences to enjoy a light, luxurious weep.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  50
  If you have an appetite for well-made treacle, then Bella should go down a treat.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  40
  Manages to be utterly predictable without making any sense at all.

  by Julia Wallace | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  40
  If Bella (the title doesn't make sense until the last scene) is a mediocre cup of mush, the response to it suggests how desperate some people are for an urban fairy tale with a happy ending, no matter how ludicrous.

  by Stephen Holden | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  38
  In this bilingual morality movie about love, family, and fate, however, the unpredictability turns out to be highly predictable.

  by Erin Meister | Read Full Review »