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Sidewalks of New York

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
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Based on 4 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by: Edward Burns
Directed by: Edward Burns
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 21, 2001
DVD: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 107 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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...
Washington Post Rita Kempley
The chatty, romantic roundelay takes a lighthearted look at the misadventures of six in the city.
Read Full Review >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.
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).
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Romantic comedies don't have to be profound when they are as appealing as this one.
Read Full Review >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.
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Despite a synthetic optimism in the script, the movie's pervasive bleakness is relieved only by some bright performances.
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson
Too bad it isn't quite funny enough to be mistaken for "Jackass."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A waterlogged bagel, hardly the valentine to New York it imagines itself to be.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
Not just instantly forgettable, but beginning to fade from memory even as its images still play across the screen.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jessica Winter
Achieves inadvertent pathos via its own obscene irrelevance.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Dramatically and conceptually, the movie sits there, flat, naked and trying too hard with too little.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ukie gave it an8:
I really liked it. It's a film about sex and relationships of average people, in this case New Yorkers. Acting is decent, and the charecters are realistic and bright. Beats the larger then life action packed crap if you're in the mood for something about real life.
Brendi P. gave it a 9:
I am actually surprised this movie didn't get better reviews. The acting was top notch and the movie was shot in a documentary type style. This made the movie seem more in touch with reality. I really enjoyed this movie. The only downfall is that it is predictable but even this still keeps your interest. We all know the passed couple of years, movies about relationships have not been up to par. This one is definitely a change for the good. I recommend renting this movie.
