Horrifying

Rating: 7/10 (19 October 2006)

It's an odd world indeed when you find that a comedy drama aimed probably at teen girls is actually one of the scariest movies you've ever seen. I can't dispute, however, that it does pretty much what it aims to do, and it is thoroughly exhilarating, but I can't say I "enjoyed" it, per-se. That said, Meryl Streep plays a monster so brilliantly that I can't help but be in awe of her performance, and everyone else does an absolutely sound job; there is fortunately little by the way of stereotype and I'm glad I've only ever met one person in my life who would be at home in the type of world displayed here (and he was a total idiot). I would have rated the film differently, but I was so disturbed by the shallow, superficial world that I saw that I would be selling my soul to Satan if I gave it anything other than a seven.