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75The big downside of the film is that it always feels slightly contrived.
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A highly likable movie.
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66An intermittently irresistible entertainment.
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63Has little islands of humor and even perfection, floating in a sea of missed marks and murky intentions.
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60A mixed bag, all in all (casting Huey Lewis was not the best idea), but worth seeing.
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60Every so often a movie comes along that's bad in such original and unexpected ways that it inspires an almost admiring fascination
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50The joys of singing give the movie a hook, but when Duets aims for lyricism, it's got a tin ear.
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50Too crisp and calculated to match the moods of its wild and woolly characters, and its interwoven subplots lead to predictable outcomes.
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50Simply creaks with contrivance -- particularly in its overwrought finale.
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50Hard to take stone-cold sober.
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50Duets is to movies what karaoke is to pop: a spirited attempt by non-pros.
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50Appealing, and ultimately moving.
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50The ensemble cast, struggling with wanly written characters, hits more clunkers than high notes.
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50A simple entertainment that's by and large carried on the backs of its actors, some who are wonderful and others who are merely likable.
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50Lack of much substance or dramatic payoff makes the whole significantly less than sum of its parts.
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If scriptwriter Byrum hadn't tried to cram every possible theme into this film -- hoping, no doubt, they would all add up to greatness -- Duets would be an entertaining, wryly observed slice of Americana.
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50Slight but savory.
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A leaden piece of whimsy that looks for profound life lessons among a group of karaoke bar aficionados.
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38Miserable as it crawls for two eternal hours toward being "life-affirming."
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38Hits mostly flat notes, then a few really sour ones.
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38Giamatti provides those small moments of triumph that Duets pretends to celebrate but instead stifles with its sense of superiority.
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33To be fair, there are moments when the film seems better than, finally, it is.
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30This soft, formulaic comedy/drama has a far better cast than it deserves, and they work their hearts out trying to bring life to a cliched script.
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30Only the most indulgent would fail to notice that this movie can't hold a tune.
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30Why the devotion to such dull material?
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30A road movie, though there's a decided lack of forward motion.
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30By the time Duets faces the music, hardly anyone is going to care.
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25The talented cast doesn't stand much of a chance in this rambling, pointless narrative.
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20A conceptual train wreck, with half an idea scattered like disaster debris all over the screen.
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JamesR10Her name was lola, she was a show girl... dah de dah de dah. This movie was fun interesting and catchy. What is better?
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