| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
So wonderfully odd, even spiritual, that audiences won't be able to do anything but smile.
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| 100 |
New York Daily News
Among the funniest and most satisfying films I've seen in years.
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| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
Turns the tricks of psychology into duplicitous high play.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A feeling movie, a mood movie, an evocation of the kind of interaction we sometimes hunger for.
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| 88 |
New York Post
A crowd-pleasing ensemble piece, whose story goes exactly where you want it to.
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| 80 |
Film.com
It's witty, entertaining, often funny as hell and even, at times, surprisingly wise about the human condition.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
How refreshing it is to see a studio picture where plot development is revealed not so much by grandiose action as by the small, interior shifts that are witnessed through a character's eyes.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
A flyweight, humongously entertaining ensemble number.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
On a direct line with the whimsical small-town comedies of the '40s and '50s.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
Kasdan ends up with an intellectually dishonest movie about intellectual dishonesty.
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
Agreeably entertaining, peppered with rich laughs and very nice actorly touches.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
This eccentric fairy tale with the feel of "Our Town" has a number of remarkable performances.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
The performances are disarming and Mumford is the kind of comedy that grows on you if you give it a chance.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
This good-natured comedy serves up plenty of laughs while suggesting that the best experts in human psychology are plain old humans.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
A sort of thinking-person's cornball movie.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
At heart a Frank Capra-style social fable for the '90s.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Low-voltage and forgettable.
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| 64 |
Mr. Showbiz
Despite impeccable performances, this is bloodless, ho-hum stuff.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Kasdan has assembled a stellar cast of supporting players to lend this low-key tale some interest.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Kasdan hasn't lost his touch at gathering terrific ensemble casts, although the performances are uneven.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
Those who enjoy the old-fashioned Hollywood pleasure of seeing divergent threads neatly pulled together will be more than satisfied.
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| 60 |
Salon.com
Laura Miller
Features one of the rare complex portraits of a therapist.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Goes out of its way to suppress most natural dramatic conflict, so it's left to the actors to carry the day.
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| 60 |
Film.com
All fleeting charm where it could have been one of the most memorable films of the decade.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Mumford is good for a few chuckles and not nearly as egregious or cloying as it might have been.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
A little like a secular, more sophisticated "Touched by an Angel" episode.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
I enjoyed this while it lasted, especially for the cast.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
Comes straight out of the Forrest Gump School of Interpersonal Magic, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Watching this string of sketches about small town wackos is like channel surfing a heavy sitcom zone.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Seems as though its reach is always exceeding its grasp...partly because Kasdan spreads himself a bit thin amongst the nine major characters he's working with.
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| 40 |
Variety
Kasdan's direction here is even less energized than his writing.
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| 30 |
Rolling Stone
A fine case ... but none weighty enough to keep this fluff from evaporating as you watch it.
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| 25 |
TNT RoughCut
If a good laugh is needed on the next trip to the theater, please avoid this quack.
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