Blender rates 'Stranger' with 3 stars

Blender gives Hilary Duff 3 stars (***) for her latest video "Stranger":

When it comes to straight-ahead electro-pop, Hilary Duff and Katharine McPhee are leading the pack this year with their excellent respective LPs. And while we’re still waiting on McPhee’s video for her potentially huge hit "Love Story," the Duff is back on the small screen with her clip for "Stranger." Like most of her Dignity album, this song has Hilary lamenting a relationship gone awry with a guy who can’t help being a jackass (wonder who she’s talking about…). And in this video, it just so happens that the new, more mature Duff is forced (forced!) to go undercover as a belly dancer to bust her fickle boyfriend. (She’s also apparently forced into giving us shameless close-ups of a certain cell phone, but no matter.) Her dancing skills are still a tad stilted but she makes up for it with some key "despondent" and "perturbed" acting faces. One thing’s for sure, this thing blows away anything Good Charlotte’s done in the last couple years.