| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Pleasantly modest, endearingly etched and briskly set to a pounding beat.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
Lively, likable and refreshingly unsensationalistic about the drugs and sex that come with the territory, this techno-propelled mash note to the rave spirit sticks to the surface.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
A fun, well-assembled and -performed slice of life that requires no special affinity with the subject matter in order to -- ahem -- get one's groove on.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
What's infectious about Groove is the friendly, almost innocent way that its brat pack of digital-age bohemians seek liberation in a world where there is nothing left to rebel against.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
If you require fine writing, sharp plotting and consistently good acting, you will be in for a long 86 minutes.
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| 70 |
Slate
Groove offers the most wholesome vision of orgiastic oneness imaginable -- it's a raver's version of "The Love Boat."
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Divided into sections bracketed by the arrival of each new DJ and is enlivened by the edgy yet trendy environment.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
As a musical feast, Groove works well. As a celebration of tribal ritual, it's even better.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
The film's seductive lack of pretension will make a fan of you.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
This is not the addictive, hot-wired movie you want.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Has a sweetness to it that's irresistible, and its techno, trance and jungle soundtrack is as infectious and hypnotic as a contact high.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Contains too many weak performances and predictable lines to succeed, but it's probably the best rave movie so far.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
What gives the movie its coltish charm is Harrison's scene-setting feel for the indomitable brio of kids.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The music and wizard DJs in Groove are better than the dopey story.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
I liked the music. I would rather have the movie's soundtrack than see Groove again--or at all.
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| 50 |
Film.com
The story of Groove... provides an ingratiating road map to a cultural phenomenon. Just make sure you drink lots of water while you're there.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
If you're a rave virgin, it'll more likely make you feel like the guest nobody invited. And why would you pay nine bucks for that?
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| 50 |
TV Guide
A sweet-natured ode to rave culture saddled with a ridiculously clichéd plot line.
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| 48 |
Mr. Showbiz
Its characters and plot are almost wholly negligible. It's just a party.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
The best thing about this movie? It's short.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
Groove is less a work of subcultural ethnography than a curiously dorky act of hipster sincerity, less party movie than cheesy valentine
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
There's not enough sustained musical momentum to simulate the energy of an actual rave; the characters are likable but unremarkable.
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| 33 |
Portland Oregonian
Groove seems to be less about what it is chronicling than what its attempting to decipher.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
But there's nothing in this amateurish movie that the opening credits of last year's "Go" didn't do better.
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
Unfortunately, it lacks a compelling story or characters of any complexity.
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