| Miramax Films | Release Date: December 3, 1999 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
In the end, Holy Smoke crashes and burns.
Either Campion is the most inspirational director of performers or Winslet the most carnal.
As much fun as anything director/co-writer Jane Campion has ever filmed. Holy Smoke lets it all hang out.
By its hilarious, grotesquely over-the-top climax, Holy Smoke is ideologically, metaphorically out of control, as if it has risen from the '70s ashes.
It's an often lovely, constantly assured film that now and again burps forth a really remarkable vision. But it's also half-nuts -- maybe three-quarters.
Sexy, snotty, vulnerable and above all contentious, she's (Winslet) the catalyst in a movie that creates more man-woman electricity than any other movie this year.
It lurches ineptly from lame comedy to hokey melodrama.
In a movie packed with broad humor, the best jokes are so small they're easy to overlook.
Just not enough for me.
A quirky and satisfying love story.
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