Chantilly Lace
Showtime | Release Date (Streaming): July 18, 1993 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
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Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
5
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Critic Reviews

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60
VarietyEmanuel Levy
An amiable, middle-brow entertainment, Chantilly Lace provides a knowing, bittersweet look at the complex lives of modern American women. Read full review
60
Washington PostPatricia Brennan
The result is an unusual movie about acceptance, tolerance, support, sex and fun among a group of longtime female friends who meet for three weekends within a year. Women viewers are not likely to be surprised by their conversation; men may be. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Given a wealth of acting talent and the freedom to improvise its way past the cliches that hobble so many films by and about women, Chantilly Lace ends up a cliche anyway: a manipulative tearjerker. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesChris Willman
The improv is convincing enough, and the actresses strong and loose enough, that you may really feel like you’re eavesdropping on actual conversation. And that’s intoxicating, in spots. But the chat grows so self-consciously therapeutic in this see-through “Lace” that most voyeurs will want to go peep in another TV window well before the sex talk turns to taxing teariness. Read full review
50
The New York TimesCaryn James
It is a quirky, ambitious, praiseworthy project that somehow becomes a victim of all the cliches it was invented to avoid. Read full review
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