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Bachelorette

Old habits party hard.

2012 · 1h 27m · R Comedy, Romance
Directed by Leslye Headland

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Overview

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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58%
Tomatometer
Rotten

The women's dialogue is pungently ribald but diffuse; too often, shouting and shrieking and gesticulating take the place of engaged performance.

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh

A nasty little piece of work -- a phrase I use not with contempt but with grudging admiration.

Dana Stevens, Slate
Fresh

Its actresses - particularly Dunst - are terrific. Headland has a nice feel for music, too, and takes some editing risks.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Rotten

I don't see why women being as slobby and gross as the guys is such a feminist breakthrough -- especially since, as in Bachelorette, the slobbiness and grossness is witless.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh

As smart and popreferential as Headland's writing is, it's a little underwhelming when it comes to delivering on laughs.

Sara Stewart, New York Post

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