JokerMichel The movie has no real heart and even less soul Unfunny , unrealistic and boring ... I don't recommend anyone to watch it , because you will loose two hours from your life

djm20 This is an OK teen flick and Lohan carries it decently enough on her talented shoulders. She is a movie star in the best of Hollywood traditions: multi-talented, photogenic (the Marilyn Monroe scene is striking) and underneath all that surface, a complicated personal life. The irony is not at all lost when Lohan's character, who finally gets her moments alone with the worshiped rock star, discovers that he is a drunk, says so out loud in repulsion. One wonders if a young teen boy, finding Lohan alone and inebriated in a bar booth would not make the same observation.The saddest thing about these young, talented stars who sparkle so brightly in their youth and then set towards a trajectory that can only have them fall hard to the earth, is that it happens with such regularity and predictability. They take their talent and success for granted and, when it is lost, it usually is lost for good.I hope Lohan finds a fan who is as honest with her and, as in this movie, as with the rock star, is touched and recovers her balance and stability and we, as audience, gain the benefits that her promise demonstrated in these bubble gum movies.

James Hitchcock The central character of this film is Mary Cep (who prefers to be called Lola), a New York schoolgirl who is horrified when her mother decides to move the family to the New Jersey suburbs. (I wonder if the choice of the name "Lola" was inspired by Lindsay Lohan's own "Li-Lo" nickname). For Lola her native city is the cultural centre of the universe, and New Jersey is spiritually dead. To make things worse, the rather Bohemian Cep family are not made particularly welcome by their staid and conventional new neighbours, who disapprove of their lifestyle and of the fact that Lola's mother is a divorcée. (This detail did not really ring true. Surely these days divorce is nearly as common in conservative suburbia as it is among the artistic intelligentsia).The film is a standard high school comedy, with three main strands to the plot. One deals with Lola's attempts to attend a rock concert with her strait-laced friend Ella and to meet her favourite rock star, Stu Wolfe. Another deals with the staging of a school musical based upon Shaw's "Pygmalion", in which Lola takes the role of Eliza. (This is not Lerner and Loewe's "My Fair Lady" but a rock version which transfers the action to modern-day New York). The third deals with Lola's romance with a handsome boy named Sam. A theme running throughout is the rivalry between Lola and Carla Santini, the beautiful but snobbish and bitchy daughter of a wealthy lawyer. (The glamorous class bitch is a recurrent character in high school dramas).There are some similarities with "Get Over It", another film set around the staging of a high school musical. (I must admit that I have never seen either of the "High School Musical" films themselves). The main difference is that "Get Over It" is a romantic comedy, which just happens to be set in a high school, and in which the male characters are as important as the female ones, whereas "Confessions…." is a high school comedy which just happens to feature romance as one of its elements, and not the most important element at that. (The Sam sub-plot occupies considerably less time than the other two, and the emphasis is very much on the female characters rather than the male ones).Until I saw this film recently I was only aware of Lindsay Lohan as a name in the gossip columns, the latest official Drama Queen of American showbiz, rather than as an actress. The meaning of the title in the context of the film is that Lola is a "drama queen" in two senses, in the sense that she is an aspiring actress but also in the sense that she is the sort of person who will make a huge emotional drama out of just about every development in her life, but in the light of recent revelations about Lindsay's personal life it seems unfortunately appropriate to her as well.To be fair to Lindsay, however, the film shows just why she was regarded in 2004 as having enormous potential to become a major star. The freckle-faced redhead is not, perhaps, a classical beauty (the real beauty in this film is the appropriately-surnamed Megan Fox, who plays the obnoxious Carla), but she has plenty of personality and charisma, and makes Lola, for all her faults, into a lovable heroine. "Confessions….." is a fairly trivial and lightweight, if inoffensive, comedy, but the sparkle and energy of Miss Lohan's performance transform it into something watchable, even to those of us who are not teenage girls. 6/10

the_flot Every time Lohan succeeds in some small way and rolls her eyes to the heavens with that butter-wouldn't-melt look on her freckly face it gets a little bit more like having your toenails removed with rusty forks. Considering her well-documented party girl exploits and devil may care approach to life as a Hollywood actress, it's hard to be convinced by this sugar & spice portrayal of a schoolgirl living out her fantasies clad in increasingly ridiculous getups. The central theme of newby versus evil prom queen was done with much greater irony and considerably more aplomb in Lohan's worryingly similar vehicle 'Mean Girls', and so this reporter urges you to see that instead.Be warned