| 100 |
Los Angeles Times
A little movie with big truths, a work of such fierce intelligence and emotional honesty that it blows away the competition when it comes to contemporary romantic comedy.
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| 90 |
Time
A true movie rarity: a brutally honest romance. If you loved "Sleepless in Seattle," you'll just hate it.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
More emotionally complex than even I had thought possible, Chasing Amy is the sound of burgeoning genius on the fast track to maturity.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
While the surface of his film sparkles with sharp, ironic dialogue, deeper issues are forming, and Chasing Amy develops into a film of touching insights.
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| 88 |
ReelViews
Touching, funny, sweet, and most important of all, real -- a welcome breath of fresh air.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
This small-scale, low-budget movie is defined by an honest searching quality.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
The hit-and-run outlandishness of "Clerks" was a stunt. With Chasing Amy, Smith has made his first real movie.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
Smith's knowing humor and unruffled style make a good antidote to gender chaos. Music by David Pirner contributes to the film's loose, inviting mood.
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| 80 |
TNT RoughCut
Wendy Wilson
Funny, profane and surprisingly painful at times.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
Neither PC nor crudely anti-PC, this tough and tender movie, like its characters, is prepared to take emotional risks, and the comic book milieu is deftly sketched in.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
Smith startles us with raw emotional honesty.
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| 80 |
The New Republic
Smith makes it crackle, with various aggressive honesties and wit. [May 5, 1997}
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
An ingratiatingly sincere attempt to deal with the complications and contradictions of modern romance.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Smith shows the grasp of character and offbeat humor that really registered in "Clerks," and a subtler mastery of film fluidity and professionalism than anything in the cheesy, amateurish "Mallrats."
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| 70 |
Film.com
Mary Brennan
Has a squawky, endearing, pugnacious angst about it, like Adams. It's too loud, sometimes, and it's always pushy, but it's got heart.
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| 70 |
Variety
Much of the dialogue is good, and Smith does a decent job of presenting the emotional fallout from every major participant's p.o.v.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
The only romantic comedy in quite a while that acknowledges, even celebrates, the fact that love and sex are emotional anarchy.
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| 70 |
Film.com
What Smith does best in Chasing Amy is write clever, raunchy and emotionally true-to-life dialogue.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
Smith has created the raunchiest romantic comedy in recent American film, and one of the most good-natured.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
Peter Rainer
The film is about how much you're willing to give up for love--a tune that has been played many times before, but never with quite this much slacker brio.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Its honesty and insights are refreshing.
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| 63 |
USA Today
For all its inconsistencies, this is Smith's most provocative outing yet and certainly the toughest to forget.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Lacks insight and finesse, and feels like a boldfaced Rorschach for Smith's own hang-ups.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
The filmmaking technique of writer-director Kevin Smith has matured since the raunchy "Clerks," his popular debut movie; but although his dialogue is often witty, he still relies on blunt sexual humor to get his point across.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
A romantic comedy distinguished by the particular roadblocks writer/director Kevin Smith throws up in front of his characters.
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| 50 |
Mr. Showbiz
Alex Demyanenko
Until he (Smith) learns the difference between what has meaning and what's meandering, what feels real and what feels contrived, he'd be better off sticking to the funny stuff.
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| 38 |
San Francisco Examiner
The intention is there, but the needed emotional maturity isn't.
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| 0 |
Washington Post
Eric Brace
Can a script exploring some truly deep questions about human sexuality and emotions be any shoddier and wooden?
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