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100In spirit, and sheer joie de vivre, it's everything the movie business should aspire to. Win Win exemplifies movies the way they oughtta be.
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100A film with a big heart; it's an eccentric dramedy and a crowd pleaser.
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90Shaffer's inexperience pays off. He's completely natural as a mixed-up kid (and great on the mat).
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90Blessed is the go-for-it movie that can make room for dissonances and weirdness.
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88It's an original that plays as if it were based on a novel.
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88With Win Win, McCarthy has found his emotional sweet spot, a sweet and complex story to set it in and the perfect title for it.
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88Confident enough to simply go with the exotica of average middle-class Americans who are well-intentioned, flawed, and dog-paddling like crazy to keep their heads above water. There's nothing at all unusual about them, and that's unusual.
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88The story feels believable as a witty chronicle of human behavior, in contrast with the self-consciously satirical style of some indie films and the far-fetched heroics of big studio fare.
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88This movie wins you over, head and heart, without cheating. It's just about perfect.
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83A gentle movie with heart, spirit and wit.
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83Win Win, it turns out, isn't a tale of facile victory. It's a movie about how loss makes everyone do things they'll both defend and regret.
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80The story wraps up with a tenderness that feels true but completely without mush. The irony of the title fades as Win Win wins you over.
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80There's a wonderfully steely spine inside of Tom McCarthy'sWin Win," but it's hard to see at first because it's inside the doughy, everyman person of Paul Giamatti.
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80Warmly observed and solicitous of its audience to the point of caress, Win Win is as comfortable an experience at the movies as you might have this year.
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80Pure pleasure to experience. Written and directed by Tom McCarthy with an impeccable feel for off-center human comedy at its funniest and most heartfelt, its low-key qualities are so relaxed and unforced every moment feels like a gift.
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Mar 5, 201180Think "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Little Miss Sunshine." In many ways, Win Win fits that mold, which should make it McCarthy's most broadly appealing movie to date.
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75The kind of indie gem that doesn't come around nearly often enough -- and, when they do, often not enough people go to see them.
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75The same kind of keen, empathetic observations that made "The Station Agent" and "The Visitor" so illuminating are at play here, too.
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75I'm happy I saw Win Win. It would have been possible to be happier.
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75The effect is an endearing and plainspoken clarity that stops just short of naturalism; the people in his movies don't seem real, exactly, but we end up caring about them as though they were.
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75The film offers plenty of good screen company along the way.
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75All these characters make a beautiful mess together, even if McCarthy spends too much time tidying it up.
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75It's a bit less good than McCarthy's earlier films -- Jeffrey Tambor has a large, superfluous role that abruptly disappears, and Ryan, a fine actress, makes a less than entirely convincing spouse for Giamatti. This one is a crowd-pleaser nonetheless.
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75Win Win is less quirky than "The Station Agent" and less soulful (and political) than "The Visitor," but it still does little to buck the trend.
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70A thoughtful and admirably nuanced moral drama.
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70Win Win goes a bit soft in places, protecting its characters from serious danger or tough moral reckoning. But the film's niceness is also central to its appeal, because nearly all of the characters are people you enjoy spending time with.
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67The standout in Win Win is Alex Shaffer, a former New Jersey state champion cast as Kyle.
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63In the end the film stacks up just this side of twee, as the sort of quirky fare that's passably entertaining without ever offering anything real or remarkable.
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63Win Win is a paragon of truth at a slow jog, but that upbeat sprint to the finish feels like a big cheat.
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60Funny, agreeable and thoroughly enjoyable, if a little bit too neat and fortuitous in sorting out its entangled strands.
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60No matter how predictable his arc is, writer-director Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent) never loses sight of the difficulties of cashflow and making one's weekly nut. You'll want to give his movie-and his secret weapon, the lovably neurotic Bobby Cannavale, as a recent divorcé hoping to co-coach the team-a pass for sweetness.
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50In his short career (The Station Agent, The Visitor), McCarthy has established himself as a craftsman of conventionally quirky pictures that are ENTIRELY about ingratiating themselves with the audience.
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Mar 15, 201150A "quirky" dramedy in the "Juno"/"Little Miss Sunshine" mode, but lacking the latter's vibrant ensemble and the former's snappy patter, Win Win is indie with the edges sanded down completely.
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Mar 5, 201150A disappointing domestic comedy in which all but the audience get what they want.
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