The critics have spoken, and they're not fans of Katie Holmes' 'comeback' performance in the new comedy Mad Money.  The film, which also stars Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton, was being touted as Holmes' first return to the big screen since marrying Tom Cruise and giving birth to daughter Suri.   Looks like Tom's latest on-screen performance is the one to watch these days.

In one of the more caustic reviews, a New York Post critic calls the movie “the most cringe-making return since Love Boat: The Next Wave" and saves his harshest criticism for Mrs. Cruise. “Holmes, with Alice Cooper hair and crazy Jim Carrey eyes, looks terrible and acts worse, unless this movie is unintentionally a lobotomy documentary,” the reviewer writes. “Whatever could have happened to her in the last couple of years to zap the talent out of her like this?”

I haven't seen the movie, but judging by the trailers I have to agree.  Did anyone see Holmes in her well-reviewed film Pieces of April?  Rent this movie, and tell me that the girl hasn't been brainwashed and talent-washed since then.

[photo: USmagazine.com]