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83Anderson is a hopeless romantic in a cynical world, and for a brief moment he makes the case that true love is the only power that can crack time and space.
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80Looks drab and doesn't take very good advantage of its New York locations, but the neurotic intensity and emotional honesty of its two leads more than make up for it.
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80Fresh and flip and enjoyable, it's a sci-fi-tinged romantic comedy that I urge you to seek out.
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Best of all, and unusual for a screenwriter, Anderson handles the science consistently (maybe even scientifically).
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75Essentially silliness crossed with science fiction. The actors make it fun to watch.
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75Happy Accidents is romantic perversity in reverse.
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75The actors have enough appeal to keep it moving over the speed bumps.
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75D'Onofrio's affably wide-eyed weirdness generates not only pleasure, but a genuinely authentic conundrum, bouncing forward and backward toward the truth.
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75"Happy Accidents" should retire Tomei's status as part of a show-biz urban legend and establish her once and for all as one of our most versatile and engaging performers.
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70This sweet, lovingly passionate story is nonetheless a charmer. Anderson's technique -- jaggy, product-testimonial close-ups; eerie still-image insertions -- is arresting, but this is an actors' showcase.
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70A lighthearted yarn designed to stand out by virtue of its intricate structure and trippy time-travel element. But the fanciful material wears thin pretty quickly, the air leaking out of the balloon long before party's over.
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67Gleefully silly fun, with a few core concepts on the nature of time, space, and la-la-la-love thrown in for good measure. And who can resist a puffin, anyway?
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63Doesn't have the negative qualities of many big-studio romantic comedies, but it doesn't quite take flight.
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60The leads smooth over the plot holes endemic to all 4D fables, making the movie more than mere déjà vu.
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50Put in such an uncomfortable position, the audience needs something to fall back on, like chemistry between its stars. Here that's half-hearted at best.
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50D'Onofrio is a natural for the role of a romantic who just may be a freak. A highly physical actor, he ranges between sweetly awkward and a candidate for the kind of mental hospital shown in "Session 9."
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50This is an overlong film interesting chiefly for its performances.
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50If you're willing to suspend a barrel or two of disbelief, then Happy Accidents has its moments.
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50As impressive as it is in the abstract, all the detail ultimately drags the movie down and lengthens it unnecessarily.
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The actors make a good team in this film, and they're playing well-defined characters, but the script is so repetitive that we get mighty impatient for the mystery to be resolved.
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42All guts, no glory and, worse, bad story.
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20It's a warped kind of romantic comedy in which the whole is substantially less than the sum of the parts.
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