"Mona Lisa Smile" is all about Roberts as a 1950's art professor at a prim and proper girl's college who struggles to breathe women's lib and independent thinking into a classroom full of snobbish boomer brats who want little more than an "Ozzie & Harriet" future. A sort of testament to the societal oppression of 50's women, this flick wanders drunkenly between storylines serving up plenty of squeaky clean drama, pathos, and Kodak moments in a contrived Hallmarkish presentation which never really makes up its mind about what it wants to be. With subpar critical reviews and a so-so reception by the public, "Mona Lisa Smile" will work best as a night-at-home small screen chick flick. (B-)
Review of Mona Lisa Smile
