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The New York Times opens with this: "The claws draw blood in “Notes on a Scandal,” a misanthropic game of cat and mouse from which no one emerges unscathed". The Guardian says, "Something so horrible and abject shouldn't be so compulsively watchable, and yet it is." The Independent has some of the same plot-spoiling concerns about the film that I do.
Empire Online calls it "Intelligent, classy and skin-crawling." Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 87%.
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Wow, that was powerful. I read the Independent's concerns and can see how there was so much that could have been said or done, but wasn't. It was a good review, though.
ReplyDeleteIt was a powerful film, I agree with you.
DeleteIt was a compelling movie. Love Judi Dench, but she was such an awful, pathetic woman in this one--LOL! Like you said--they were all awful. But the psychology of it all was what drew me in to the characters.
ReplyDeleteYes, I was fascinated with it as psychological character study. I did find myself talking to the characters as I watched the movie.
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