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91Watching Bounce, you look at him (Affleck) and believe how much he's got at stake, and you look at Paltrow and know why.
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90Roos combines a sharp script with excellent performances.
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80It's a love story, yes, but one whose sweetness is cut by honest performances, a sharply drawn supporting cast and a fairly serious, yet never self-pitying, tone.
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75In movies with this story structure, all depends on the precise timing of the delay and the revelation, and Bounce misses. Not by a lot, but by enough.
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75The movie is well acted, deeply moving, and unlike some love stories, it doesn't feel forced or contrived.
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75There's nothing in Bounce you haven't seen before, but the movie is surprisingly unsentimental, the Paltrow factor cannot be denied.
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75Roos introduces the possibility that perhaps two partials add up to the whole truth, and in so doing creates a provocative love story that sticks with you long after the credits roll.
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75Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow are so immensely appealing, and their chemistry together is so unforced, that their presence alone makes a movie worth seeing. Thankfully, Bounce has even more going for it.
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75For the first time since "Chasing Amy," I realized why people like Ben Affleck.
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70Thrillingly unpredictable.
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70Bounce may be far from a great film, but its pleasures are consistent enough to remind you of how few movies nowadays come anywhere close to matching it in intelligence and emotional balance.
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63After a few movies in which Paltrow was in danger of becoming a caricature of herself, she's back in rare form.
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63Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.
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60Beneath the plot's romantic turns lies a surprisingly complex examination of the personal and professional price of honesty; falsehoods, half-truths, little white lies and self-delusion spur most of the key plot developments, and Roos never resorts to platitudes to account for their effects.
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50Doesn't really work when examined in the daylight outside the theater doors.
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50The most depressing date movie since "Random Hearts."
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50Surprisingly tepid and soapy.
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50If I wanted a Nora Ephron cuddle-ganza, I'd rent one.
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50Truth is, Affleck and Paltrow flunk Chemistry 101. They aren't believable even as a fake couple.
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50It's the opposite of "The Opposite of Sex," a meditation on multiple truths, and the lies that sometimes lie in between.
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50Flies coach instead of first class, despite a charismatic cast.
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50There's no way out of the excruciating melodrama, and the film withers in its trap.
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50Simultaneously contrived and genuinely felt.
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50The unusually thoughtful dialogue and soul-searching performances make this romantic drama seem deeper than it is.
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42Isn't sexy, funny, smart or fun.
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40While Bounce may mark a sophomore slump for Roos, it's hardly the worst date movie out there.
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30A pallid, mediocre tale that treacles its way through well-worn channels.
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30It's been smoothed over plenty, but this is one creaky, rigged contraption.
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30So relentlessly vanilla that it never springs to life.
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30Affleck and Paltrow, who've been excellent elsewhere, display less chemistry than they've shown in magazine photo shoots. Even Woody and Bo Peep had more going on between them in "Toy Story" than these two manage here.
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20Moments of strained mirth indicate how false and fabricated the whole enterprise really is--just a couple of well-to-do superstars doing their darnedest to prove to us that they're regular folk. And failing.
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