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Sidewalks of New York
Paramount Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content and language
Starring
Edward Burns,
Rosario Dawson,
Dennis Farina,
Heather Graham,
David Krumholtz,
Brittany Murphy,
and
Stanley Tucci
Traces the intimate lives of six New Yorkers, all from different walks of life and locations New York, struggling to find love and happiness in the big city. (Ed Burns Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Edward Burns
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Edward Burns
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 21, 2002
Video: May 21, 2002
Theatrical: November 21, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
107 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The chatty, romantic roundelay takes a lighthearted look at the misadventures of six in the city.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
There's a lot of talk about sex in Sidewalks of New York, but precious little of it. And that's part of the point.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Burns' movie shows a Woody.esque affection for a certain slice of New York and its denizens (with the angst and neuroses quieted down a notch or two).

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's by far the best cast Burns has assembled -- so much so that, unlike his other films, he doesn't come near dominating it.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is funny without being hilarious, touching but not tearful, and articulate in the way that Burns is articulate, by nibbling earnestly around an idea as if afraid that the core has seeds.

75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Romantic comedies don't have to be profound when they are as appealing as this one.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The film's flaws seem unimportant, and it passes the big test, making you want to find out what happens to these characters, even when what does happen is predictable.
70
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Improves as it unfolds.

60
Film Threat
Rich Cline
The story is tight and engaging, the acting first-rate, the themes solid and presented without being sentimental or preachy. But let's hope his next film ("Ash Wednesday") has something new to say.

60
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The time is right for a breezy, captivating New York romantic comedy. Sidewalks of New York is not an especially good movie, but it will do.

60
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Isn't much more than a student film made by a talented amateur who's in over his head. Burns has a decent eye and a breezy sense of pace, and he'll make better movies if he remembers where he came from.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's a veritable Greek chorus of wry therapeutic chatter, the touchy-feely pensées skittering over the stock dualities of adultery and fidelity, lust and devotion, narcissism and intimacy, blah, blah, blah.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Burns has a hard time finding a central idea,
some overall point that isn't borrowed or trite. Or both.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Despite a synthetic optimism in the script, the movie's pervasive bleakness is relieved only by some bright performances.
50
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Though the acting in "Sidewalks" is uniformly fine, particularly among the female cast, it's hard to glimpse any meaningful vision, sly insights or cinematic flair.

50
TV Guide
Steve Simels
Charming, low-key ensemble comedy that recalls the films of both John Cassavetes and Woody Allen, which is to say it's a loosely structured, quasi-improvisational saga about a bunch of New Yorkers obsessing about relationships.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Wispy, cosmopolitan slice-of-life.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
Those who teach public speaking sometimes advocate telling your audience what you're going to tell them, then actually telling them, then telling them what you've told them. Sidewalks reproves this isn't a wise path for movies.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Wears out its welcome fast because of its artistic pretensions and self-absorbed characters. You'd be better off renting "Manhattan" instead.

50
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
It makes the same misstep that Allen's comedies often do: It assumes that the lives of these people are only about sex and love, and so that's all we ever see of them. This one-and-a-half-dimensionality wears thin.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Burns' trite talk and familiar romantic conflicts doesn't do any of the characters any favors. Everyone comes off flat and forced, with one notable and lovely exception: Dawson.

40
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
Too bad it isn't quite funny enough to be mistaken for "Jackass."

40
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
The assumption among many when the movie was postponed was that Paramount Classics felt New Yorkers weren't emotionally equipped for something bright or frothy or vivacious. They needn't have been concerned.

40
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Burns, who made a career out of his mildly charming Irish-American rogue persona, has, with his latest and fourth feature, finally sloughed off the remaining traces of that charm, along with, apparently, the vestiges of a personality.

38
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A waterlogged bagel, hardly the valentine to New York it imagines itself to be.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Though the writing doesn't work, you have to give Burns credit for shrewd direction. He gets the best performances I've seen from Graham and Murphy.

30
Variety
Scott Foundas
Not just instantly forgettable, but beginning to fade from memory even as its images still play across the screen.

30
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Achieves inadvertent pathos via its own obscene irrelevance.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Dramatically and conceptually, the movie sits there, flat, naked and trying too hard with too little.


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