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XX/XY
IFC Films
MPAA RATING: R for sexuality, language, and brief drug use
Starring
Mark Ruffalo,
Kathleen Robertson,
Maya Stange,
Petra Wright,
Kel O'Neill,
Joshua Spafford,
Zach Shaffer,
and
Joey Kern
A unique coming of age story about friends on the threshold of adulthood and how they breech that uneasy time, still struggling to maintain their true sense of being. (IFC Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Austin Chick
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Austin Chick
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 29, 2003
Video: July 29, 2003
Theatrical: April 11, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Nominated, Grand Jury Prize, 2002 Sundance Film Festival

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...
91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Emotional presence and a sophisticated understanding of commitment-phobia (as something other than a comedic punchline or an excuse for sex scenes) distinguishes this intense, contained drama, as does the unforced, sensual, and sensitive cinematography of Uta Briesewitz.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Ruffalo plays the character with that elusive charm he also revealed in "You Can Count on Me."

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Ray Conlogue
Rarely does a fine movie like this have so awkward a title, or so off-putting an opening scene. But there is method in both these madnesses, and a searchingly intelligent and moving story to be told.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Doesn't necessarily offer anything new to the male/female dynamic, but it refuses to let Coles off the hook with an easy epiphany and a painless happily ever after.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The movie is really a sexy, emotionally true portrait of a handful of people wrestling with their impulses and trying to find their way to happiness.

75
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
What makes XX/XY so engaging; it attempts to define love through broken characters who know neither themselves nor the meaning of love.

70
Film Threat
Tim Merrill
It may appear clichéd in the telling, but Chick has no use for the glib irony and rampant pop-culture sampling which has already dated "Reality Bites" and its ilk.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Though initially off-putting, Chick's distanced direction pays off as XX/XY goes along.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Chick agreeably captures the feel and flow of on-the-move young professionals in New York.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
I was engaged by Chick's characters...But that point passed pretty soon after the credits rolled, and nothing has come back to haunt me since.

60
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Each moment feels real, but the movie wears you out in some way. High naturalism is just as much a stylization as High Stylization. The groping nature of the conversations comes to feel as artificial as iambic pentameter.

60
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
This unstinting look at growing up in the 1990s never pulls its punches. Bridging the angst of Generation X and the uncertainties of Generation Y, Chick reveals the romantic traumas, career screwups and self-absorbed fantasies of a group of eastern college grads.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Some moments in XX/XY ring true, and the honesty exposed is revelatory. But, like some relationships, this drama can be tough to endure.

50
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
The cast is an impossibly beautiful bunch of actors who could hold your attention even if they spoke nothing but gibberish, which sometimes is the case in the pillow-talk dialogue provided by director/screenwriter Chick.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
An ongoing problem is the complete lack of chemistry between the leads.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Writer/director Austin Chick falls into the timeworn trap of making an immature, irritating film about immature, irritating characters.

40
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
The young filmmaker clearly needs to experience a bit more of la vraie vie before his own observations can take in more than the clumsy romantic feints and parries of early adulthood.

40
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
It's an overly familiar setup played out by overly familiar types but, curiously, what invests XX/XY with its tension is that there's no sense that Austin Chick, the film's capable young director and writer, knows what he feels about any of this.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
A sour portrait of Gen X yuppies who settle for adult lives that appear at once soulless and overprivileged.

40
Empire
Olly Richards
The dialogue is intelligent, but the humourlessness -- and the fact that most of the cast could use a good slap -- results less in involving drama and more in the viewer being held hostage in a 90-minute therapy session for the well-dressed and narcissistic.

38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A blandly filmed and subtext-heavy talkathon that wastes a game cast on a group of characters about whom it's almost impossible to care. If this were a cocktail party, you'd be back home with a good book already.

30
Washington Post
Nicole Arthur
Anyone who's ever sat through a Neil LaBute film knows you can make a movie in which all the characters are unsympathetic, but this trio is uninteresting, to boot.

30
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
A movie that's two-thirds flashback (and could have been called "Ex, Ex, Ex, Why?").

25
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
It's awkward, listless and fails to reach any sort of climax.


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