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83
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Taxi to the Dark Side
80
Band's Visit, The
79
Visitor, The
78
Counterfeiters, The
76
Unforeseen, The
76
Stuff and Dough
75
Young@Heart
75
Shotgun Stories
74
Witnesses, The
73
Duchess of Langeais, The
72
Roman de gare
72
Priceless
72
Tuya's Marriage
72
Life of Reilly, The
71
My Brother Is an Only Child
71
Blindsight
71
Standard Operating Procedure
70
Caramel
69
Redbelt
69
Chicago 10
68
Honeydripper
67
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67
Praying with Lior
67
Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The
67
Jellyfish
66
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
66
Shelter
65
Married Life
64
Surfwise
64
Son of Rambow
64
Water Lilies
63
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63
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
63
Body of War
63
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62
Planet B-Boy
62
Battle for Haditha
61
Dhamma Brothers, The
61
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
61
Girls Rock!
59
Under the Same Moon
59
Fugitive Pieces
58
First Saturday in May, The
58
Fall, The
58
Hats Off
58
Bra Boys
57
Flawless
57
Teeth
57
Without the King
57
Grand, The
56
Turn the River
56
Then She Found Me
55
Vice
55
Tracey Fragments, The
55
Pathology
55
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
54
Cashback
54
Mister Lonely
52
My Blueberry Nights
50
Look
49
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48
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48
Dark Matter
48
Penelope
47
Bella
47
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46
CJ7
45
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45
Zombie Strippers
44
Frontier(s)
44
Chaos Theory
44
Previous Engagement, A
43
Anamorph
43
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41
Funny Games
40
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37
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35
Meet Bill
35
Babysitters, The
35
Deal
32
Backseat
32
Chapter 27
30
Cover
24
Sex and Death 101
20
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
17
Prom Night
xx
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xx
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xx
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Sweet November
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content and language
Starring
Keanu Reeves,
Charlize Theron,
Jason Isaacs,
Greg Germann,
Lauren Graham,
and
Michael Rosenbaum
Nelson (Reeves) and Sara (Theron) have nothing in common except an hour spent in DMV hell. Intrigued by each other, but not quite ready to commit, they settle on a rather unconventional courtship: a one-month trial, after which they'll go their separate ways. No expectations. No pressure. No strings attached. What neither of them counts on is falling in love. (Warner Brothers)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Kurt Voelker (also story)
Paul Yurick (story)
Herman Raucher (1968 screenplay)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Pat O'Connor
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 24, 2001
Video: July 24, 2001
Theatrical: February 16, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
120 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...
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Neither a masterpiece nor a remake of one, but its wistfulness is infectious, and its melancholy mood lingers for days.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's a small film, and a far from perfect one, but it allows her (Theron) to extend her range as no previous role has done.
63
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
Nice to look at but too calculated and clichéd to resonate beyond its surface slickness.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Anyone in the market for a bittersweet romantic comedy could do worse.

50
Slate
David Edelstein
He's (Reeves) not as good as he was playing a menacing Georgia wife-beater in The Gift, but he's an awfully convincing jerk.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
If the movie works on its own insipid level, it's because of high-gear star power -- 50 times the captivator Dennis ever was, Theron is terrific at creating adorable intimacy with little help from the script or director and exudes more guileless élan than any of the film's many puppies.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Does neither of its leads any favors. But they fill their roles admirably, and then some. Time and again, in a movie that repeatedly threatens mawkishness, you can sense them gently steering away just in the nick of time.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The sort of movie that seems to exist for no good reason except to keep the studio's pipeline filled with filmed product.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The sweetest thing about Sweet November (a remake of the 1968 movie) is the on-screen magic between Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves. But that's pretty much where the magic ends.

42
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
It's classic movie manipulation gone amok.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Does neither of its leads any favors. But they fill their roles admirably, and then some. Time and again, in a movie that repeatedly threatens mawkishness, you can sense them gently steering away just in the nick of time.

40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
It's all corny and contrived and usually sensitive. The filmmakers even dare to show the effects of illness--a subject frequently glamorized to the point of being insulting--in a love scene of rare honesty.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A contrived but entirely workable premise is given a well-tooled treatment in Sweet November, a femme-slanted doomed romance with a heavily calculated feel to it.

38
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
November is when we eat turkey, and Sweet November is pretty much a fat, juicy gobbler passed off as Valentine's Day date bait.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
If Sweet November were a puppy, it would have rabies.

30
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
This is one of those movies in which there are only two types of people: officious yuppie pricks, and the beautiful folks who stop and smell the daisies. What keeps it (barely) from being completely intolerable is Keanu Reeves' hilariously awful lead performance.

30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This whimsical weeper gets off to an awkward start and never finds its footing.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A film that means to be seductive but merely progresses from the contrived to the manipulative.

30
Film.com
Robert Horton
Charlize Theron has charm and skill, but no actress could survive this role, which has the gravity and verisimilitude of a sketch from a late-sixties Nancy Sinatra TV special.

25
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
The enigma of Reeves, sort of a human black hole on screen, works well in "The Matrix" but it drains the life from weepy romance.

25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Passes off pathological behavior as romantic bliss. It's about two sick and twisted people playing mind games and calling it love.

25
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A hellacious stew of romance and tragedy that gives the words "screwball" and "pathos" a bad name.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A very low grade romantic drama indeed, a love story with all the life and death intensity of a heat rash.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Get out your handkerchiefs. No, scratch that -- get out a pair of windshield wipers and staple them to your brow. Perhaps they'll obscure the screen.

20
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
This feeble remake offers little more than two pretty and willing leads who nonetheless can't hide their embarrassment over being set up as distractions to hide the film's thorough lack of coherence and appeal.

20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The film's last half-hour -- or do I mean its final two weeks? -- is meant to keep the audience sniffling and sobbing uncontrollably, but the only thing likely to elicit tears is the sight of Mr. Reeves dressed in a white dinner jacket crooning "Time After Time."

20
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A front-end collision of a romance.

20
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Beware all male viewers who enter here, you are in chick-movie hell.

20
Dallas Observer
Staff (Not credited)
It could be said that Reeves is one of the great manifestations of the mysteriousness of stardom. He gives the worst performance in Sweet November, and he's the best thing about it.

10
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Shamelessly manipulative in a crude, bullying way.

10
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Sara is supposed to be an adorable screwball with a fatal disease. Ms. Theron certainly gets the adorable right. With a comic style that's close to unerring, she not only deserves better than this junk but the very best.

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