What Alice Found
Castle Hill Productions | Release Date: December 5, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
1
Negative:
2
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90
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Scrupulously fair-minded yet deliciously ambiguous, What Alice Found, a triumph of sound psychological and artistic judgment, is an unexpected treat for sophisticated audiences. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A small, finely wrought drama. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
In the end, the camper-lot prostitution serves as trapping for a weirdly touching coming-of-age film that leaves its heroine sadder but wiser. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The screenplay by director Bell is packed with surprises, and the acting is excellent. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It has nothing going for it but a terrific story and an amazing performance by Judith Ivey, who plays an enigmatic Good Samaritan. Read full review
70
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
An unusual angle on the age-old coming of age story. Filled with solid performances by veteran actors Ivey and Raymond, as well as a captivating performance by newcomer Grace. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
There's a refreshing frankness to the film's treatment of its sordid subject matter that more than compensates for its technical limitations. The three performers inhabit their roles with, yes, an emotional truth that is bracing. This is particularly true of Ivey. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd McCarthy
By turns disarmingly amusing and dramatically blunt. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Bell forces us to see characters from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in a distinctly human light, neither ennobling nor pitying. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Digital video is both the blessing and the curse of writer-director A. Dean Bell's well-conceived but underachieved What Alice Found. Read full review
63
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Bell has added unexpected shadings to what could have been simply a sordid tale of highway prostitution, gradually revealing surprises to the characters that keep a murmur of unease thrumming throughout. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Newcomer Grace seems born to the part of an unformed young woman whose character cries out to be shaped, but it's Ivey's unobtrusive skill that shapes their onscreen relationship into something thoroughly convincing. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Ivey hits the turf pitching and catching dialogue like a pro, but nothing could have saved What Alice Found from a fundamental cinematic illiteracy. Read full review
25
PremiereSara Brady
Alice has all the emotional truth of an America’s Most Wanted reenactment. Read full review
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