| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Anderson is a hopeless romantic in a cynical world, and for a brief moment he makes the case that true love is the only power that can crack time and space.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
Staff (Not Credited)
Best of all, and unusual for a screenwriter, Anderson handles the science consistently (maybe even scientifically).
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Looks drab and doesn't take very good advantage of its New York locations, but the neurotic intensity and emotional honesty of its two leads more than make up for it.
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| 80 |
Wall Street Journal
Fresh and flip and enjoyable, it's a sci-fi-tinged romantic comedy that I urge you to seek out.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Happy Accidents is romantic perversity in reverse.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The actors have enough appeal to keep it moving over the speed bumps.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Joan Anderman
D'Onofrio's affably wide-eyed weirdness generates not only pleasure, but a genuinely authentic conundrum, bouncing forward and backward toward the truth.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
"Happy Accidents" should retire Tomei's status as part of a show-biz urban legend and establish her once and for all as one of our most versatile and engaging performers.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Essentially silliness crossed with science fiction. The actors make it fun to watch.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
This sweet, lovingly passionate story is nonetheless a charmer. Anderson's technique -- jaggy, product-testimonial close-ups; eerie still-image insertions -- is arresting, but this is an actors' showcase.
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| 70 |
Variety
A lighthearted yarn designed to stand out by virtue of its intricate structure and trippy time-travel element. But the fanciful material wears thin pretty quickly, the air leaking out of the balloon long before party's over.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
Gleefully silly fun, with a few core concepts on the nature of time, space, and la-la-la-love thrown in for good measure. And who can resist a puffin, anyway?
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Doesn't have the negative qualities of many big-studio romantic comedies, but it doesn't quite take flight.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
The leads smooth over the plot holes endemic to all 4D fables, making the movie more than mere déjà vu.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
Megan Rosenfeld
The actors make a good team in this film, and they're playing well-defined characters, but the script is so repetitive that we get mighty impatient for the mystery to be resolved.
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| 50 |
New York Post
This is an overlong film interesting chiefly for its performances.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
D'Onofrio is a natural for the role of a romantic who just may be a freak. A highly physical actor, he ranges between sweetly awkward and a candidate for the kind of mental hospital shown in "Session 9."
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
If you're willing to suspend a barrel or two of disbelief, then Happy Accidents has its moments.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
As impressive as it is in the abstract, all the detail ultimately drags the movie down and lengthens it unnecessarily.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Put in such an uncomfortable position, the audience needs something to fall back on, like chemistry between its stars. Here that's half-hearted at best.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
All guts, no glory and, worse, bad story.
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| 20 |
Mr. Showbiz
It's a warped kind of romantic comedy in which the whole is substantially less than the sum of the parts.
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