| Birthday Girl Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: C) |
| BIRTHDAY GIRL (director/writer: Jez Butterworth; screenwriter: Tom
Butterworth; cinematographer: Oliver Stapleton; editor: Christopher Tellefesen;
music: Stephen Warbeck; cast: Nicole Kidman (Nadia/Sophia), Ben Chaplin (John
Buckingham), Vincent Cassel...more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by Eugene Novikov (Rating: B-) |
| Birthday Girl is a cool little genre-hopper that will
end its theatrical run before you can say "Nicole
Kidman?" It's unique and self-effacing, with director
Jez Butterworth evidently aspiring to be a mix of Guy
Ritchie and Ben Stiller. And even if you...more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4) |
| Since their split exactly one year ago, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
have gone
their wildly separate ways both on- and off-screen especially (as far as their more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by Bob Bloom |
| BIRTHDAY GIRL (2000) Starring Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel,
Mathieu Kassovitz and Kate Evans. Written by Tom Butterworth and Jez
Butterworth. Directed by Jez Butterworth. Rated R. more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: C+) |
| John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin) is a mild-mannered, lonely bank clerk whose
luck with finding love has been considerably less than successful. He
decides to make a last-ditch effort to find a mate and surfs the Web to the
site "From Russia With Love."...more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by David Levine (Rating: 1/5) |
| At one point toward the end of Birthday Girl, Ben Chaplin’s defeated character
sits in front of a campfire looking at the woman who transformed his lonely but
successful life into that of a criminal. For the first time in the film, I
could finally...more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4) |
| Da, John is a really lucky fellow. In Jez Butterworth's romantic thriller
BIRTHDAY GIRL, John Buckingham has just received delivery of a Russian mail
order bride named Nadia. She may not be able to communicate verbally in
English, but she makes up for...more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by Jonathan F. Richards |
| "Birthday Girl" throws out an impressive challenge: is it possible to make
a romantic comedy without a single laugh? It makes a breathtaking start in that
direction, as sad sack Brit bank teller Ben Chaplin orders a Russian bride off
the internet....more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 7/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "BIRTHDAY GIRL" (Miramax Films)
Nicole Kidman's versatility is astonishing! After "Moulin Rouge" and
"The Others," she embodies an entirely different persona in this breezy,
off-beat love story about John Buckingham...more |
| Birthday Girl Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 6/10) |
| Nicole Kidman's career has been full of hits and misses - something that
became painfully clear in 2001 when the actress starred in both the truly
awful (Moulin Rouge) and the elegantly sublime (The Others). Her latest -
the middling Birthday Girl -...more |
