Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
User Score
8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 34 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 34
  3. Negative: 2 out of 34

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  1. Mashie
    Jul 7, 2002
    4
    Weak ideas, coincidence-driven plot, and boring.
  2. MarcK.
    Jun 16, 2002
    4
    I kept hearing how all the sub-plots wove together so beautifully like in Magnolia or Pulp Fiction...I certainly didn't see that in this movie. Clea Duvall is the only bright spot in this pointless effort. I see that Roger Ebert loved this movie. Is there any movie Ebert DOESN'T rate highly anymore? Yeesh!
  3. BillB.
    Aug 7, 2002
    0
    This was a completely terrible cinematic exerience. The most boring and terrible moments of my life are far more fun and interesting than the best moments of this film. Emerging from the theater, I was relieved to realize within myself that after all, the real world is not as bleak and hopeless and dry as portrayed in "13 Conversations". The messege was weak and un-true, the dialogue clown-like, and the photography dull and sometimes painfull. This is the worst art film that I've seen since The Blair Witch Project. … Expand
  4. DavidC.
    Aug 7, 2002
    0
    Horrible. Yes, Horrible. I have not seen a movie with so little coherence in my life. And I saw Episode II. How could it have gone so badly, so immaturely? How could actors we've trusted make such banal, cruel statements with no payoff? There are some good actors in this film, but none of them do good acting. Clea Duvall did some nice, simple work. But it is testament to the crappyness of this movie that she was hit by a car within twenty minutes. Crap.… Expand

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Metascore
74 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    It starts slowly, but this contemplative drama's cumulative effect is genuinely haunting.
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  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    75
    Nothing fantastic or supernatural ever happens, but you can still feel cosmic forces at work behind the scenes, conspiring to repeatedly test the movie's characters, doling out reward and punishment in equal doses.
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  3. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    75
    Smart, serious and deftly composed, New York director Jill Sprecher's jigsaw anthology film, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, is the kind of work you want to applaud just for its ambitions.
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