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[A] pretentious family-in-crisis drama ...
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Overview
Wife and mother Miriam begins a downward emotional spiral as her husband avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in his 11-year-old daughter's quest to become a spelling-bee champion.
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Fine directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (The Deep End) take a detour into mumbo jumbo.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
There's no shortage of material on the screen in Bee Season -- it's just not assembled in a satisfying manner.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
Bee Season is earnest and heartfelt and respectful. And a botch.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, whose visual schemes lent a hypnotic aura to their previous collaborations ... don't find the right balance of story and image this time.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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