David Gordon Green's second film, is too subtle and perceptive, and knows too much about human nature, to treat their lack of sexual synchronicity as if it supplies a plot.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
It's thrillingly original, lyrical, and wise, and the filmmaker conveys the mutable intensity of young love with the authoritative originality of an important filmmaker.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
The best movie of the last 20 years about young people in love is 1989’s.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The movie may take five extra minutes to end and could do with one less sunset but . . . other than that it's damned near perfect.Read Full Review »
Green shoots his groping lovers in the art-film style -- long takes, static frame -- but his tone isn't at all minimalist; it's achingly, breathtakingly romantic, like the old Hollywood love stories his kids have never seen.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
It's a movie of deft impressions and telling human moments. Whether or not those impressions and moments add up to anything is almost beside the point.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Slow moving and low key, and, when the final credits roll, you feel like you have spent nearly two hours in the company of a few real people, not constructs of a writer's imagination.Read Full Review »
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