Nurse Betty: Critic Reviews

Despite some good acting, interesting illusion-vs.-reality plot scenarios and subtle humor. It just doesn't jell well.

The actors hold the movie together, particularly Ms. Zellweger and Mr. Freeman, whose characters achieve a remarkable intimacy in a most unlikely situation.

In his third, most accomplished film, LaBute puts aside the inquiry of misogyny that dominated his previous work and immerses himself in a lighter romantic fable about the collision of fantasy and reality, with a terrific performance from Renee Zelwegger

This fantasy-tinged romance leaves a distinctly bitter aftertaste.

In terms of the taste it leaves behind, the difference between LaBute's first two films and Nurse Betty is the difference between eating a bucket of bad clams and coming upon them deliberately placed in a seafood dinner.

LaBute didn't write Nurse Betty, but his fierce comic touch is, luckily, all over this movie.

This comedy has a few violent scenes.

Good performances all around, especially from Zellweger and Kinnear. Lots of good laughs laced with nastiness.

This is easily Ms. Zellweger's finest work.

After a summer of cookie-cutter comedies and blowsy action flicks, Neil LaBute's Nurse Betty is good for what ails you.

Almost every emotion and action on view is presented as false, idiotic or superficial.

Despite cringing at many of Betty's deluded interactions with the residents of her final destination and the director's seeming lack of faith in the believability of many of the scenes, Nurse Betty still turns out to be entertaining.

If I had to use just one word to describe Nurse Betty, that word would undoubtedly be...Quirky. And I mean that in a really, really good way.

In the end [it] tells us we shouldn't depend on each other... we should be glad that 'we have ourselves.' What a lonely and sad conclusion.

Nurse Betty suffers, however, from a script that relies on jaded hit men for comic impact. We've seen it done too many times since...Pulp Fiction.

Las actuaciones son buenas, al nivel del gran elenco que se reune, pero el guion es el que se lleva los aplausos.

One of the finest-written surprises of the year.

A strong contender for one of the best films of the year.

This bizarrely funny satire/allegory from the maker of heavier fare such as In the Company of Men works on a surprising number of levels, not the least of which is perhaps the first human Renee Zellweger performance I have ever seen.

With Nurse Betty, Zellweger moves fully into the realm of leading lady. Her crooked mouth and mousey voice notwithstanding, I wouldn't think it would be out of the question for her to garner an Oscar nomination for this excellent performance...

While Nurse Betty proves that LaBute has more than one string to his bow, you can't help thinking that he makes more memorable cinema when revelling in misanthropy.

A highly unlikely blend of savage violence, farcical humor and impossible romantic yearning, acted out with sometimes awe-inspiring precision.

Renee Zellwegger is the real star here, of course, and Greg Kinnear is very enjoyable too, but it's Chris Rock and Morgan Freeman that really won me over.

The overall effect is one of a very special, genial loopiness.

...unnerving, but never cynical. Violent but never gratuitous....an odd little film with a cracked heart .