EveryReese Witherspoonfan has a favorite version of Reese Witherspoon.
Others love to feel highbrow while indulging in the gratuitous little grudges ofBig Little Lies.
She’s played serious, she’s played funny, she’s even done horror that one time.

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How couldCheryl Strayed’s incandescent memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail possibly translate to the screen?
“I shouldn’t have worried.

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That’s not always a good thing, by the way faithfulness often leads to leadenness.
Witherspoon is marvelous in a rare role that allows for comedy and drama.
Can the whodunits offer anything more interesting than just shocker payoffs?

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TBD after four eps.Big Little Liesinvests you in mysteries and the renewal and re-liberation of its women.
Hopefully it can transcend to big little truths, too.
Reese Witherspoon’s Alice Kinney is a classic Meyers heroine in nearly every way.

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And certainly sexy; a scene of David arousing Nicole on a roller coaster is hot.
Yet efforts to keep the two apart only push Nicole even more deeply into danger.
David, of course, is deranged bad news.

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The subtext: Just don’t do it.
(I can’t even begin to translate the message to poor old dads.)“L.S.
Cruel Intentions(1999): B
From the vault: “O youth!

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O brave teen sex romp that has such literary ambitions in’t!
(The entire film runs 89 minutes.)
“Enter the coarse, bawdy corrective that is the Christmas family megaplex comedy.

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe in ‘Cruel Intentions’.Everett Collection

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Reese Witherspoon in ‘Legally Blonde’.Everett Collection