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38Stevens, an actor taking charge from the other side of the camera, and writer and co-star Breen are going for a romantic black farce, a darkly noble idea, but one that requires far more empathetic characters and funnier situations than they've created.
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38What a mess.
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38It's coherent, well shot, and tartly acted, but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate.
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38The result is a small independent film suffering from a severe case of Hollywood-itis. A cautionary tale minus the caution, Just a Kiss is just a cop-out.
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Clumsily written and numbly performed comedy of yammers.
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30Not just another disposable romantic comedy, but an ambitious, overreaching mess.
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30Muddled attempt at edgy comedy.
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25The movie seems to reinvent itself from moment to moment, darting between styles like a squirrel with too many nuts. There is one performance that works, sort of, and it is by Marisa Tomei,
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25The best thing you can say about Just a Kiss is that it isn't every romantic comedy that throws in suicide, bondage and a plane crash in between all the bed hopping.
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Gets everything wrong, starting with a title that indicates a somewhat innocent romantic transgression.
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10A convoluted writing exercise gone horribly wrong.