| 63 |
New York Daily News
Graham is lots of fun to watch, but it's hard to reconcile the split halves of her character.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Runs dry amid the cactus and sagebrush, but Graham's cartoony take on angelic unstoppableness makes us not mind so much.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Graham is funny and adorable in this endearing little romantic comedy.
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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
Writer-director Lisa Krueger bends over backward to make everyone happy.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Krueger's comedy doesn't always spark, but its underlying intelligence - not to mention Graham's eyes - shines through.
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| 61 |
Mr. Showbiz
There's a sense of life to Committed that's unpredictable and sweet, but too much of it is cluttered with lazy shortcuts.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
The best thing about Committed, though, is Krueger, a filmmaker who's not only willing to lead us into the well-traveled terrain of romantic comedy, but able to show us something new there.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a fizzle as as comedy. Still, the film has character.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
With its capacity to surprise, the film comes to life when you don't expect it to, in tiny but wonderfully off-center moments.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Works as a quixotic study of emotional quirks.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
This romantic comedy turns stereotypes inside out as the main character, whose sense of commitment is represented by a tattoo on her finger instead of a wedding ring.
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| 50 |
Rolling Stone
It's a one-joke premise that ultimately wears thin, but Krueger works some playful variations on a theme.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
But one can only imagine how different the film might have been with, say, Parker Posey or Catherine Keener -- truly funky actresses with some real edge -- in the lead.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
An inert screwball cartoon, a celebration of monogamy as fashion statement.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The real problem here is that director Krueger has no flair as a writer or a director for inspired screwball comedy.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
You need to accept the fact that practically everyone in the picture, particularly the leading lady, is a boneheaded nitwit.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
Should have never made it up the distribution aisle.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Comedy, like marriage, takes more work than this.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Graham maintains a casual charm throughout it all, but she lacks the kind of emotional depth that might have pulled this hodge-podge together.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Until it backs itself into a narrative corner, Lisa Krueger's Committed is a delightfully unpredictable experience.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
One more movie comedy about how love can turn you into an idiot. And its major flaw, among many others, is that the idiocy takes over the movie.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Afailed attempt at a hipster screwball comedy. Very failed.
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