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100
With the pitiless, devastating Fat Girl, Catherine Breillat puts men and women, boys and girls on notice: When fantasy, hypocrisy, and manipulation mix in a wet, sandy place, you dive into sex at your own risk.
100
An absolute stunner of a movie.
90
It's a lean, mean movie, and not a pretty one, but it leaves no question as to Breillat's angular originality as a filmmaker.
90
As fascinating as it is discomfiting and as intelligent as it is primal. From first shot to last, France's foremost bad girl has made an extremely good movie -- and maybe even a great one.
90
Much more than a perfectly realized vignette about seduction. It is the latest and most powerful dispatch yet from Ms. Breillat, France's most impassioned correspondent covering the war between the sexes.
90
Despite the disappointing conclusion, it's hard not to be affected by the film, because of the director's frank approach to her subject and the sheer skill with which she tells her story.
90
Proves to be a remarkably lean and incisive film about the fateful power of sexuality.
88
It's sensuality with a stinger, and Fat Girl is an adolescent sex drama that takes no prisoners.
88
There is a jolting surprise in discovering that this film has free will, and can end as it wants, and that its director can make her point, however brutally.
80
The film's concluding sequence is bound to polarize audiences.
