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NUMBERS
Box Office: $9,492,087
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CONSENSUS
The satire in S1m0ne lacks bite, and the plot isn't believable enough to feel relevant.
CAST & CREW
Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Directed by Andrew Niccol
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SYNOPSIS
"I can't work with a fake."
-- Viktor Taransky In Hollywood, the land of illusion, never have those words rung so true… until S1M0NE. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, some sensuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 57 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 23, 2002
Video: Jan 21, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
New Line Cinema
GENRE
Comedies, Computer Animation, Film About Film, Hollywood, Movie Stars
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official S1m0ne Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "The story really has no place to go since Simone is not real—she can’t provide any conflict."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 ""It's all about the image.""
-- Boo Allen, DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
"What I saw, I enjoyed."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"A sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"Control-Alt-Delete Simone as quickly as possible"
-- Bruce Bennett, SPECTRUM (ST. GEORGE, UTAH)
"S1M0NE’s satire is not subtle, but it is effective. It’s a quirky, off-beat project. ..."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"A sharp, amusing study of the cult of celebrity."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"Director Andrew Niccol...demonstrates a wry understanding of the quirks of fame. His healthy sense of satire is light and fun...."
-- Luanne Brown, CHICO ENTERPRISE-RECORD
"Smart, provocative and blisteringly funny."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"The picture's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators' symbolic images with his words, insinuating, for example, that in Hollywood, only God speaks to the press"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"You might want to take a reality check before you pay the full ticket price to see "Simone," and consider a DVD rental instead."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"I kept thinking over and over again, 'I should be enjoying this.' But I wasn’t."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
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"Aside from being the funniest movie of the year, Simone, Andrew Niccol's brilliant anti-Hollywood satire, has a wickedly eccentric enchantment to it."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Beneath the uncanny, inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce...lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"When your subject is illusion versus reality, shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real?"
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Purports to be a Hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging. Oh, and more entertaining, too."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"While the script starts promisingly, it loses steam towards the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target."
-- Laura Bushell, BBCI FILMS
"there is truth here"
-- Jim Chastain, NORMAN TRANSCRIPT
"Simone is a creation that does have it all – comedy, brains, ideas, beauty and discussion."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"“Simone” is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Funny Pacino was a delight to watch; but Preachy Pacino made the movie
drag - and Tired Pacino continues to grind my gizzard."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"In the real world, an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like "Girl in Bar #3.""
-- Mike D'Angelo, TIME OUT NEW YORK
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ROTTEN 34%
Avg. Rating: 5.4/10 |
"Pacino is the best he's been in years and Keener is marvelous."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"This is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"A ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative, of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"Simone is not a bad film. It just doesn't have anything really interesting to say."
-- Paul Clinton, CNN
"A pleasing, often-funny comedy."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"It's fitfully funny but never really takes off."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies."
-- Scott Foundas, VARIETY
"A smart and funny, albeit sometimes superficial, cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"If this is satire, it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
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"She may not be real, but the laughs are."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "S1m0ne" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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