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Rated: PG-13; Genre: Romance; With: Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

Drecky teen-puppy courtship. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles spend the entire movie staring moistly at each other -- that is, when they aren't delivering dialogue that's embarrassing in its coy and wistful hungry-heart neuroticism. The film includes two cringe-worthy white-kids-get-down-with-their-bad-selves lip-synch scenes, and Stiles, who was charming in her snappishness in 10 Things I Hate About You, here plays a self-serious freshman princess with so much precious conviction that you want to send her to a beer bash before she looks into the camera and confesses again. F


Posted Feb 11, 2000
 

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