At its heart it’s a film that is trying to critique the stigma of single motherhood and understand exactly what draws women to pageant life.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2024

Beautiful is just bad, sadly. Where's the plot?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2010

ally Field's direction is pedestrian, though she does manage to get shamelessly winning performances out of Driver and Eisenberg.

Full Review | Apr 12, 2010

An uneasy mix of broad satire, soap opera outlandishness, and movie-of-the-week sappiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 14, 2010

It's treacly, plastic and shamelessly obvious, and yet, on a low-rent level, it somehow works.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2006

Flat, witless, and sappy (a very bad combo), Sally Field's embarrassing feature directorial debut aims to say something "relevant" about American society's obsession with physical looks at the expense of "inner beauty" and moral integrity.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Sep 12, 2006

...one of that growing genre of mainstream Hollywood shots at the main chance -- an unfunny comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Jan 2, 2005

Pior do que a direo de Sally Field, s mesmo o carter desprezvel da personagem principal: uma mulher egosta, ftil e irritante. Ao longo do filme, eu no queria apenas que ela perdesse o concurso; queria que ela sofresse.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 24, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 10, 2003

When a person is suffering deeply, Field cues you in to what they're thinking by having voices from the past echoing all around them, a technique that's more often used in cautionary drivers' ed documentaries...

Full Review | Jun 10, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 19, 2002

An entertaining, if flawed, film all the way up until the disastrous final 5 minutes, which turn up the self-appreciation and cheeseball meters so high that it becomes sickening.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

One idiotic, false, maddening plot turn after another, none of which are resolved in a manner that would resemble real, human behavior.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Sally, get it straight: Mona doesn't deserve to be cheered. We don't like her. We really, really don't like her.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Like watching Norma Rae Goes to the Pageant.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The lead character in this film ... is one of the most reprehensible human beings that I have ever had the displeasure of watching at the movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jan 1, 2000

Beautiful ain't. Sally Field may be proclaiming "You like me! You really like me!" behind the camera, but don't be egged on.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jan 1, 2000