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100This is one of the best movies of the year.
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100Glossy, big-budget thriller that qualifies as the season's biggest and most rewarding surprise.
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90Captures the excitement of lightning in a bottle.
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80Out of that clever setup, Changing Lanes pulls both the promised taut suspense and a much deeper film: an ethics thriller.
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80Frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is.
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80It's an elegant, civilized, and deeply liberal piece of craftsmanship, with the sort of social conscience you rarely encounter in a modern American thriller.
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The movie goes for the throat and keeps squeezing.
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80Far richer than you'd ever think possible.
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80The plot, with its matched, escalating acts of revenge, may be a contrivance, but within that contrivance Changing Lanes plays earnest and well. [6 May 2002, p. 138]
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Jackson's portrait of impotent rage is tremendous, and Affleck, who drops his usual smugness, is surprisingly good.
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78Rarely have I seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart.
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75A thrilling ride but also a thoughtful one, it's a movie that does manage to do more good than bad by the end of the day.
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75A refreshingly novel ride.
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75Loses its nerve in the final minutes, relying on a series of contrivances to arrive at an unconvincingly pat, happy ending. The story begged for a darker, more biting resolution.
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75Seething, searing tragedy of unmannerliness.
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75Modern film noir done with flair and commitment.
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75If it's not conventionally speedy, it is almost always gripping.
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75While Changing Lanes isn't a perfect movie, it's watchable and compelling, and works on more than one level.
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75Teasing drama whose relentless good-deed/bad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting, less symmetrical, less obviously cross-shaped creation.
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70As it stands Changing Lanes already exceeds expectations, provoking serious thought while skillfully telling a compelling, character-driven story.
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70More entertaining than it has a right to be. It's pulpy and preposterous, and yet it gets at a real truth.
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70Although what ensues is generally unsurprising and as pro forma down-and-dirty as the genre dictates, it's also on occasion rather affecting.
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67Deeply strange, oddly shimmery movie.
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67The movie just seems like one more Hollywood cop-out, and a waste of our original emotional investment.
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63Banek is one of the more complex characters Affleck has attempted, but the performance comes off flat and uninvolving.
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63For all its pretensions, Changing Lanes, ultimately, is about nothing more profound than one foul day.
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63It's watchable from start to finish, despite lapses in common sense, and it boasts a terrific cast of over-40 actors.
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60Bleak and complex moral thriller.
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60Despite some solid acting and cinematography -- mistakenly turns what should have been a fast-paced thriller into a cerebral sermon about the slippery slope of corporate law.
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60What these guys do for revenge during one hellish day in the Big Apple makes the panic room look like Barney's toy box. The film itself goes off the deep end way before the end credits.
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60Smitten by the symmetry of his parable, director Roger Michell crosscuts emphatically between the preening leads -- a strategy that only draws attention to the numerous lapses in logic and unpersuasive changes of heart while sidelining the lively supporting cast
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60A curious combination of strident preachment and smartly farcical thriller; it's heavy-handed and light-footed at the same time.
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50Definitely erratic, this thing -- all in all, it's the sort of commercial vehicle you might want to stay well back of.
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50It is so dishonest that the title Changing Lanes can just as well refer to the cheaply contrived turns in the film.
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50If you can roll with these moments, the rest of the film pays off, but even with a relatively happy ending (one that, given the characters in question, may not last), it's a heck of a downer for date night.
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38Gets too caught up in its escalating violence and strained-to-bursting moral subtexts. It's the blood of souls drenching the screen, and it's a hideous sight to behold.
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CorentinH.9Very good movie. I love the music and ambiance ...
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