USA Today: “A potent and captivating account of misconduct and betrayal with a tour de force performance by Judi Dench. Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy are marvelous.”
NY Post: “Notes is delicious. The movie belongs to Dench and Blanchett, who have a throwdown that will rank in cinematic history. ‘Notes on a Scandal’ is a great cure for a holiday hangover. See it.”
NY Daily News: “Pick your own sports metaphor, but watching Dench and Blanchett go at each other is the match of the year.”
NY Observer (Sarris): “An exquisitely dark comedy of manners and morals.”
LA Times: “The ‘Fatal Attraction’ of the oughties.”
Washington Post: “Darkly brilliant. You have games within games, intrigues within intrigues.”
Boston Globe: “A movie so smart and entertaining you almost don’t feel its chill. There are moments of tension to make you crawl up the back of your seat.”
Boston Herald: “The most fiendishly poisonous and hilariously nasty villainess in recent history, a character for the ages.”
Chicago Sun-Times: “Perhaps the most impressive acting duo in any film of 2006. Dench and Blanchett are magnificent. ‘Notes on a Scandal’ is whip-smart, sharp and grown up.”
San Francisco Chronicle: "If you like your films strong, this Notes is not to be missed."

Recently we were reminded on line about Linda Carter as Wonder Woman and comments were made of how she had a sparkle in her eye once upon a time,but other comments were also made,and I think it is important to address those comments for her sake...My comments,as they say,here it from the horses mouth,and I say,Mua!Here I am...
In my defense I would say,before any one has any more crude remarks regaurding such ill behavior,they need to first walk in my shoes. Perhaps they need to go through memory lane and realize where I have been. Like Snow White once said in that cute children's show,and I might add,you can thank me for such a show..I am the original creator of such show,as I am also the creator of Grease the original show that everyone loves so much and it's been out for younger generation to make good use of it for plays and what not...Snow White said"Exuse me,if you only knew what I have been through" She had just fallen and was a bit confused for just a moment. Well,if you would have walked in my shoes,you would see that in the years past, I have been with amnesia for head trauma's.
I just wanted to find myself in however way I could. You don't know what it's like to be in that position,and then not be allowed to let it runs it's course but instead be harrased beyond my wildest dreams and worse than that in various ways shapes and forms...More like any and every imaginable harrasement imaginable just about. Both physically and emotionally. Try alittle bit of that medicine,and see how far you get? How would you like to wake up and your body parts are all over the place? How would you like to wake up and find out that you have had your guts torn apart and you pray for a miracle for you not to die,and you manage to find your way to survive.
Having no one to turn to,no one to care,and no one to listen...Most people when raped they usually have someone to reach out to and when they experience other matters more worse,but what happened when you are wealthy but don't know it? And you find yourself in the same situation as the most hated person in the world and dirty from head to toe,for being barried alife and not knowing who to trust and who to reach out to. And you move on,because you have no choice,but you do your best,and you want to play it by ear,but you can't really. None the less you try,and you end up at the wrong place at the wrong time.You make it,and you still manage,but you are in the middle of no where,and you only have a small amt.of energy to survive,and but you have to walk for what seem to the other end of the world on foot.After all that you try to see the light of things and for a better tomorrow only to find enemies in every direction you turn. And after all you've been through you only find yourself accidently creating more enemies along the way,for you cannot say,exuse me,I need to catch my breath and hold it and when I catch my last wind that I ain't really got,you can socket to me and give me a low blow.
Then when you think you just about to get to feeling alittle better,you are encountered with being stumped on the chest and thrown across the hall of a house and you are parlyzed from neck to toe and you have to fight to survive but you can't talk,because you are in shock and then someone comes in and trys to murder you as you thinking help was on the way,such as perametics and are fire dept. You wake up at he hospital.Later,you recover by a miracle only to encounter other worse tragedies,such as having gangreen from almost all of your body. You ask the doctor is it only my legs? No problem chop them off,but no,na really because you know you cannot handle it,that your body will go into shock,but you dare to ask,how far is the gangreen? Only to hear a response that says to far gone,too far that you will have to be put to sleep permenantly but you have a will to survive and you believe in a God of miracles and you reach out to him,for a cure and if nothing at all then atleast for doctors to find somekind of miraculous operation as the monitors that keep the heart pumping and without that the patient would die.
you find that doctor and scientist,but you know that scientist do the old fashion mestakes as in the old days,not all but some,and you are not sure you can trust them but you will try and pray alot and wait for miracles to come through,and they do. You survive,barely but none the less.Only to encouter other difficulties,many times worse and your feel well,why did I just not stay gone. Why did I pray for a miracle and even saw the other side,and woke up with being able to perform miracles and many thought you had evil powers and you didn't,and like raiots,one commotion begats other commotion and before you know it,you don't have a life,but seeing one riot breakig out before your face and you can't figure out for the life of you how you ended up in such predicament. You try to soften the blow,only to make matters worse in your struggle to survive,and next thing you know you don't have just one party against you,but you have the whole world against you and you feel if you have me in this predicament with having me feel like I have the whole world against me well maybe the whole world is against me and you think you can help,but you only make things worse to where you ultimately do get the whole world riled up with taking matters into their own hands and takign action as to address your congressman and address other people in high office and stand up and be counted and before you know it,you gave all your invention and ideas galore away,and not only one party involved but ultimtely even criminals want to cash in,into what others were cashing in. You try to make the best of it,for after all you feel that you have enough ides to go around where everyone can win and come out ahead.Only to find out you end up with the short end of the stick or with no stick at all by the time everyone was through with you. You say to yourself and to others with your look and the expression on your face,There is,there was,and there is going to be! Ultimately you get everyone to think the way you want them to think,since no one is there for you,you try to get others in the direction you wish them to go,for you feel that everyone is like a mob coming after you,and picking up many new mobs along the way as they all get riled up,along the way...And you feel well,I have been waiting for you,and I have been getting others riled up in your direction while I am walking in your direction along the way,ultimately expecting.Well, why do you not go and take better postions in life and do some good in this world rather than be into malice and what not...Right when you think you've done a good deed and got others to take better positions in life,as to get cleaned up and not look like gangsters and what not,and become usefull in various ways in society. Better jobs,better class,better styles,modern everything,new technology...You name it.
Right when you think you got it made and you think everything is going to be alright,you lose the Love of your life,many times over...For you wake up,that you had,the love of your life,but he was taking differnt shapes and forms at times,and you didn't know what gives,but you knew life went on and you had to move on...With the times,as with the steam of things.Pretend everything is perfect when actually you are busting at the seams. You find yourself lost and confused and literally sick. YOu wonder,where did I go wrong,life seemed so simple for just a brief moment,then suddenly,life is so unbareable you wish yourself dead many times over but you don't have the nerve to do it. You try hard but you can't do it,you make one mestake after another in your confussion,you mean no and you say yes. You try not to do the outreachous and ridicoulous and that is exactly what you find yourself doing. You wonder,who is in control of my mind,my thoughts,my actions,what am I? Who cares,you try to reach God and you feel he too has abandon you,but then you realize many a people were sicking this to be so,bend over backwards to make it so. You hang on,for you expect not to be foresaken because you knew whom you believed in all your life. And you find yourself confused why you have odd and strange phanominal things happening,and a diffent leaf in your life you even get to experience paranormal mishappenings.More confussion,but life goes on,you try to use the skills that God gave you to try to move on,you try to survive,and find some kind of happiness,what ever you can mustard in however way shape and form,anthing you had to do to survive,thinking it all will make sense,in the bye and bye.But,instead you find yourself encountering one tragedy after another...You lose your life to being in the mercy of others.You survive a concentration camp,genocide, and you grow weary and in dispair and no one to understand you.you try to find a way to survive in the mist of others who don't know what you been through but instead want to heap more punishment on you,because you are not all smiles,and happy and bubbly like your usual self,and you began to wonder well what is this,is that all I am good for to be someone's gitter box,and caring person,and helper,and slave,and you name it,but what about me? Does anyone care and you find yourself all alone for no one to care because you wake up to discovering that you have been runing all of your life from problems,and then you realize well that is all I have ever had,is problems..,after,you are stricken with one grief after another, then,you are in moring,but you can't mourn.your joy,your happiness,your dignity,your pride,your home. Things, that you thought you would never lose. Things that you held dear and held most sacred,never thought you'd lose your good moral values down right almost lost your mind forever. And even wrote songs to prove it,and you wake up to the fact that you even almost lost your God along the way,if it had it not been that you recalled his love is forever,and his mercy endureth for ever,and he never leaves you nor forsake you,but you must turn from what ever wrong direction life was leading you against your will. So,you find yourself going to family and to those who you hope will listen and care,but down deep in your heart you feel no one cares,not really. If you and your family never got along,because you may different from night and day,you will suddenly have to find a way to get along even if it kills you trying,for you know life can only be better than going through so much turmoil and tribulation that God himself does not wish upon you.You were self distructing and you didn't know what was causing it.Life is short you think to yourself, and you wake up to the fact that life has passed you by. Your older and wiser and feel you got nothing to show for it, but instead you do have alot to show for it,for you start recalling you accomplished alot in your life, but you didn't realize it untill too late that you gave all your blessings away in all your confussion, and no one reaching out to you and saying this is your life,this is where you belong. We care and we love you and we need you in our lives. And I moved on and I acted like I didn't care but in reality,I spent alot in prayer to make it this far. So you hope for new beginnings,and wonder if anyone will ever give you have a chance, for after all you only returned back to the earth to do good to others, and to show Gods love for others, but who can act right if someone is ambushed,more than knocked upside the head,and yanked and jerked around in various ways,in laughing and mockery,and ridicule, and made not to be themselves as I was from day one.
I went from a comma,to,waking up at a different stage in my life, seeing staples from my navel to my chest and unable to deal with it emotionally. And waking up,wondering what has life thown my way? I've been thrown for a loop,someone playing a dirty sick joke on me. I end up in a state of shock,not myself,and totally confuse as to how it happened? Then I am punished for waking up to not being myself physically. I became lost and confused as to what caused such a mishappening, that no one in their wildest dreams could ever imagine encountering such a delima.
You know you have to pray and pray hard for miracles after miracles and if not miraculously instantly then with doctors help expecting the hand of God to do the miracles your need for everything good comes from
God. Doctors can only do what God allows them to,no more and no less...God has the final answer. After much prayer and in time,you forget that you once were a stranger to yourself,you looked strange and felt strange and you can't cry,and want to cry. You feel yourself and your feel cold to the touch almost unhuman. Your mind recalls only God above can help and fix everything up...You believe in miracles after miracles,you become a miracle in someone's life suddenly and in other peoples life in time,and you know God is there and he has not forsaken you though you did crazy things in crazy moments,wildest things,in wildest moments. Like the time that I wondered do I have rabies or am I with deptheria and don't know it and I am so alone and yet at another time. I am so confused,wondered if I was transforming before my eyes.. Wondered if I was just turning into somnekind of monster or am I just dreaming and if so,what kind of medication have I been under. At times it was medication that someone had forced me to drug myself with a needle I did not know how to use,therefore I stuck it on my leg. It was either that or else...I actually had no choice.
Now,if you all can still say,you would manage as great as I did under the circumstances,then I would gove you a standing avation and be smiling big at you. Well then,if you still don't care after all I have said well,then I would say you have an even bigger problem then I did when I could not cry. Bye!