By:
Guylaine Cadorette
December 18, 2003 12:55pm EST
Mona Lisa Smile's lesson of the day--that the '50s were an oppressive decade for women--is delivered in an unoriginal manner through such shallow and unlikable characters that its message lacks an emotional punch.
This is not your grandparents' black-and-white film. It's worth seeing if you are a cinematographer buff or a Coen brothers buff, and don't mind having a story narrated to you for almost two hours.