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Groove
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for drug use, language and brief sexuality
Starring
Lola Glaudini,
Hamish Linklater,
and
Denny Kirkwood
This film is set during one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Greg Harrison
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Greg Harrison
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 5, 2000
Video: December 5, 2000
Theatrical: June 9, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
86 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Pleasantly modest, endearingly etched and briskly set to a pounding beat.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
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.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
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.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.

75
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
If you require fine writing, sharp plotting and consistently good acting, you will be in for a long 86 minutes.
70
Slate
David Edelstein
Groove offers the most wholesome vision of orgiastic oneness imaginable -- it's a raver's version of "The Love Boat."

70
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Divided into sections bracketed by the arrival of each new DJ and is enlivened by the edgy yet trendy environment.

70
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
As a musical feast, Groove works well. As a celebration of tribal ritual, it's even better.

70
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The film's seductive lack of pretension will make a fan of you.

63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
This is not the addictive, hot-wired movie you want.

63
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Has a sweetness to it that's irresistible, and its techno, trance and jungle soundtrack is as infectious and hypnotic as a contact high.
63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Contains too many weak performances and predictable lines to succeed, but it's probably the best rave movie so far.
60
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
What gives the movie its coltish charm is Harrison's scene-setting feel for the indomitable brio of kids.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
The music and wizard DJs in Groove are better than the dopey story.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I liked the music. I would rather have the movie's soundtrack than see Groove again--or at all.

50
Film.com
Robert Horton
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.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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?

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A sweet-natured ode to rave culture saddled with a ridiculously clichéd plot line.

48
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Its characters and plot are almost wholly negligible. It's just a party.
40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The best thing about this movie? It's short.

40
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Groove is less a work of subcultural ethnography than a curiously dorky act of hipster sincerity, less party movie than cheesy valentine

40
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
There's not enough sustained musical momentum to simulate the energy of an actual rave; the characters are likable but unremarkable.
33
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Groove seems to be less about what it is chronicling than what its attempting to decipher.
25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
But there's nothing in this amateurish movie that the opening credits of last year's "Go" didn't do better.
25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
Unfortunately, it lacks a compelling story or characters of any complexity.

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