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100A little movie with big truths, a work of such fierce intelligence and emotional honesty that it blows away the competition when it comes to contemporary romantic comedy.
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90A true movie rarity: a brutally honest romance. If you loved "Sleepless in Seattle," you'll just hate it.
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89More emotionally complex than even I had thought possible, Chasing Amy is the sound of burgeoning genius on the fast track to maturity.
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88While the surface of his film sparkles with sharp, ironic dialogue, deeper issues are forming, and Chasing Amy develops into a film of touching insights.
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88This small-scale, low-budget movie is defined by an honest searching quality.
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88Touching, funny, sweet, and most important of all, real -- a welcome breath of fresh air.
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83The hit-and-run outlandishness of "Clerks" was a stunt. With Chasing Amy, Smith has made his first real movie.
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80Smith's knowing humor and unruffled style make a good antidote to gender chaos. Music by David Pirner contributes to the film's loose, inviting mood.
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80Smith startles us with raw emotional honesty.
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80Smith makes it crackle, with various aggressive honesties and wit. [May 5, 1997}
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80Neither PC nor crudely anti-PC, this tough and tender movie, like its characters, is prepared to take emotional risks, and the comic book milieu is deftly sketched in.
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80Funny, profane and surprisingly painful at times.
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75An ingratiatingly sincere attempt to deal with the complications and contradictions of modern romance.
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75Smith shows the grasp of character and offbeat humor that really registered in "Clerks," and a subtler mastery of film fluidity and professionalism than anything in the cheesy, amateurish "Mallrats."
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70The only romantic comedy in quite a while that acknowledges, even celebrates, the fact that love and sex are emotional anarchy.
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70Smith has created the raunchiest romantic comedy in recent American film, and one of the most good-natured.
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The film is about how much you're willing to give up for love--a tune that has been played many times before, but never with quite this much slacker brio.
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70What Smith does best in Chasing Amy is write clever, raunchy and emotionally true-to-life dialogue.
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70Has a squawky, endearing, pugnacious angst about it, like Adams. It's too loud, sometimes, and it's always pushy, but it's got heart.
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70Its honesty and insights are refreshing.
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70Much of the dialogue is good, and Smith does a decent job of presenting the emotional fallout from every major participant's p.o.v.
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63For all its inconsistencies, this is Smith's most provocative outing yet and certainly the toughest to forget.
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50The filmmaking technique of writer-director Kevin Smith has matured since the raunchy "Clerks," his popular debut movie; but although his dialogue is often witty, he still relies on blunt sexual humor to get his point across.
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50Lacks insight and finesse, and feels like a boldfaced Rorschach for Smith's own hang-ups.
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50Until he (Smith) learns the difference between what has meaning and what's meandering, what feels real and what feels contrived, he'd be better off sticking to the funny stuff.
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50A romantic comedy distinguished by the particular roadblocks writer/director Kevin Smith throws up in front of his characters.
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38The intention is there, but the needed emotional maturity isn't.
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Can a script exploring some truly deep questions about human sexuality and emotions be any shoddier and wooden?
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