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This is a moving and challenging movie, fascinated by the murky depths that separate what people want from what they say they want and what they think they should want.
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The Mirror Has Two Faces may not be Oscar caliber on every front, but it’s a lot like its star: sharp in its humor, self-assured in its eccentricities, and immensely watchable.
63
Streisand's direction is more sure here than it was in the overrated The Prince of Tides, but the rambling script (based on that of a 1958 French film) ultimately lets her down.
60
The narcissism on display is astonishing to behold, and veteran Barbra watchers will have a field day. Beyond that, pic does deliver a number of laughs, deep-dish luxury on the production side and an engagingly enthusiastic performance from Bridges, who represses his studly side behind a bow tie and a naive, then overly logical, then totally flustered demeanor.
60
As a movie, it`s old-fashioned - comfortably chucklesome, but so predictable you can see the plot being hand-twisted. Still, unless you find the "Why do women have small feet?" joke* hilarious, you'll find at least some of it entertaining.
50
Less a film than a long, two-hour Barbra infomercial, the movie is meant to be a romantic comedy on the theme of appearance vs. character, but it turns quickly into something far more rancid: an exercise in obsessive mirror-gazing and self-mythologizing that comes to feel icky.
50
Is it our fault that no one told Barbra Streisand she was pretty as a child? It must be, because she keeps making movies that punish us for our sin by trotting out a string of leading men (Omar Sharif, Robert Redford, Ryan O’Neal, Nick Nolte — name your hunk) who declare her the fairest of them all.
50
It’s a time-tested concept that is sandbagged by Streisand’s refusal to play it more like an actress and less like a star.
50
The overkill of ''The Mirror Has Two Faces'' is partly offset by Ms. Streisand's genuine diva appeal. The camera does love her, even with a gun to its head. And she's able to wring sympathy and humor from the first half of this role.
50
The problem with The Mirror Has Two Faces isn't Streisand's well-documented ego, or the movie's indirect, probably unintentional message that beauty makes all the difference when it comes to who loves you and why. It's that, at 130 minutes, it's long and plodding, with far too many cliches—the age-old spit-take scene, and so on—and inexplicable plot points.
