Take This Waltz
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 41 Ratings
- Starring: Aaron Abrams, Michelle Williams, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen
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- Director: Sarah Polley
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Positive: 26 out of 34
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Mixed: 7 out of 34
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Negative: 1 out of 34
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90Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley's honest, sure-footed, emotionally generous second feature. Ms. Williams, one of the bravest and smartest actresses working in movies today, portrays a young woman who is indecisive and confused, but never passive.
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80Sarah Polley's second film is a masterfully painted portrait of an ordinary marriage under threat, dominated by a central performance of exquisite subtlety and observation.
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60The troubling turns the story takes, which are meant as a rebuke to happily-ever-after stereotypes, are much more interesting in conception than they are in execution.
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20In theory, these are twentysomethings we're talking about. But they walk and talk like fortysomethings or fiftysomethings, such is their dullness and self-absorption.
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Positive: 12 out of 18
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Mixed: 3 out of 18
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Negative: 3 out of 18
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