Made-Up

Name: Made-Up
Director: Tony Shalhoub
Released: 2002

Synopsis

A look at how our cultural obsession with youthful good looks affects women who are told their value is dependent on their appearance.

75
Rolling Stone
Pointed and hilarious.
70
The New York Times
Its warm, occasionally off-putting individuality is more like what you look for in a friend than in a movie, and like a friend it invites you to see the unique beauty that lies under its superficial flaws.
70
Los Angeles Times
In working with Lynne Adams' script, Shalhoub, the esteemed star of the current USA series "Monk," gives his cast the inspiration and confidence to express the characters' many facets and seeming contradictions.
60
TV Guide Magazine
It's never dull: Shalhoub's direction is smart, the dialogue is tart and the Adams' family shares a palpable intimacy that translates directly onto the screen.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
With Made-Up, the sisters Adams and Shalhoub (who is married to Brooke) have taken a playfully irreverent approach to middle-age rites of passage that comes with many opportunities for the performers to self-consciously "act."
50
Variety
While the whole may be less than the sum of its parts, those parts are individually commendable. Shalhoub has an eye for composition and a strong sense of pacing.
50
New York Daily News
Like picking out a family at random and walking into their house during dinnertime. Sure, their conversations are fascinating to them. But to you, it's just boring, meaningless chatter.
40
Village Voice
A ham-fisted satire on the American obsession with appearance, Made-Up is ultimately self-defeating and even offensive.