It’s not just Frankie who is putting on a show here. Berry is also overemphatically showing off her chops.
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Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
It's just a matter of time, flashbacks, many costume and accent changes, some more jazz, and a triggering tune on the radio before the truth can set Frankie, and the audience, free.
Berry's florid physicality has a certain silent-melodrama pull. The film around her, however, is lamentably by-the-numbers.
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper
A cringe-inducing mess.
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The DissolveNathan Rabin
The DissolveNathan Rabin
Frankie & Alice gives her the rare opportunity to play a film’s hero and its villain inside the same body, and she does a memorably dreadful job in both capacities. That trainwreck fascination is about the only redeeming facet of a prestige picture gone terribly, though not entertainingly, awry.