Notes on a Scandal
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: December 27, 2006
7.9
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Generally favorable reviews based on 127 Ratings
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MaxS.Feb 3, 2007
As a teacher, I found this movie to be intriguing and all too fictional to be taken seriously. The character development was decent but I was left with no positive feelings for the main characters. Basically, I did not care what happened to As a teacher, I found this movie to be intriguing and all too fictional to be taken seriously. The character development was decent but I was left with no positive feelings for the main characters. Basically, I did not care what happened to Blanchett or Dench's characters as they are both nebulous fools. However, the movie was entertaining and makes a solid point about loneliness and its effects.… Expand
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HalB.Apr 28, 2007
Excellent performances by the two leads, but I never quite believed what I was watching. Give credit to Dench and Blanchett for making it occasionally fascinating, but in the end you are left with not much more than a character study of two Excellent performances by the two leads, but I never quite believed what I was watching. Give credit to Dench and Blanchett for making it occasionally fascinating, but in the end you are left with not much more than a character study of two very ill women.… Expand
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BillyS.Jan 17, 2007
This is one of those movies that is worth seeing only because of the marquee names and nothing more. Patrick Marber has again written a screenplay about characters who are not very likeable to begin with and become even more unlikeable as This is one of those movies that is worth seeing only because of the marquee names and nothing more. Patrick Marber has again written a screenplay about characters who are not very likeable to begin with and become even more unlikeable as the film goes on, resulting in a finale that requires no empathy for anyone involved except for a dead cat! But watching Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett tearing each other up and apart is all you need to make it worth the admission. They both earn and deserve their place in the upper-echelon of working actors today, and Bill Nighy proves he should be there too. Has anyone noticed how many great films he's been in? The music by Philip Glass is excellent, though vaguely similar to The Hours, and all the other credits are good in a film that without it's stars would be just another episode of Footballer's Wives.… Expand
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ChrisS.Mar 7, 2007
It's one of the worse movie adaptations of a book. The psychological darkness of Judi Dench's character, brilliantly controlled in the book, was cheapened to lesbian obsession. Granted, it's more difficult to control how the It's one of the worse movie adaptations of a book. The psychological darkness of Judi Dench's character, brilliantly controlled in the book, was cheapened to lesbian obsession. Granted, it's more difficult to control how the audience interprets a scene in a movie than what to reveal in a book, but that's where the movie's biggest flaw lies. As a critic said, the movie's value lies in the actors' triumph (although Cate Blanchett, as good an actess as she is, looks too sensible a person to be cast in the role), but not much else.… Expand
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[Anonymous]Sep 15, 2007
Excellent acting and the music superb.
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DaveM.Dec 27, 2006
A well acted film, but a extremly boring one indeed. This film proves that good preformances do not drive a bad script into success. This film dissapoints with a dull storyline and terrible ending.
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StephenS.Feb 16, 2007
Looks good for the first 20 minutes, creaks like Edwardian furniture ever after. Apart from the obnoxious score, the main problem is that Blanchett (as the cradle-snatching and adulterous schoolteacher) and Dench (as her slanderous and Looks good for the first 20 minutes, creaks like Edwardian furniture ever after. Apart from the obnoxious score, the main problem is that Blanchett (as the cradle-snatching and adulterous schoolteacher) and Dench (as her slanderous and ultra-needy older … Expand
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