Dedication works anyway, thanks to Theroux's jumping visuals and Crudup's jumpy performance.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
Directorially, Dedication is a bit of a mess, unable to settle on a tone or visual style. But it leaves you wishing the oddball couple well.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Jeannette Catsoulis
A movie that reveals its toxic intentions only gradually. Until it does, there is much to enjoy in the prickly odd-couple relationship of Henry (Billy Crudup) and Rudy (Tom Wilkinson), successful writing partners and longtime friends.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie is a first-time directorial effort by Justin Theroux, a splendid actor, son of the writer Phyllis, nephew of the novelist Paul. He might have done better to have taken on something by them.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Unlike most of what Moore has been in, Dedication is unlikely to delight retirement homes on movie night. But it's not imaginative, lively, or true enough to speak to its intended audience of American Apparel shoppers, either. It's a slog.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Aaron Hillis
"Inland Empire's" Justin Theroux pops his directorial cherry with this obnoxious Sundance throwaway, a by-the-numbers romantic comedy that mistakenly believes it's either too quirky or too irreverent to be a by-the-numbers romantic comedy.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Hank Stuever
Theroux and company could be said to be "Garden State"-ing, or trying to. Instead of that film's sheen of the touchingly weird, Dedication finds a whole lot of the coldly dumb.Read Full Review »
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