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Flimsy melodrama, filled with clumsy, hand-held camerawork and turgid, pretentious literary prattle, signifying very little.
[It] somehow skirts utter loathsomeness by dint of its elegant camerawork and a few finely tuned performances. I'm not suggesting you run out to the theater and see this, but if it comes on cable someday and you have a big pile of laundry to fold...
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Instead of Rachel Getting Married with an Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway, we get Galt Niederhoffer's misbegotten, miscast snoozefest with Katie Holmes struggling to prove that there is life as an actress while still being Mrs. Tom Cruise.
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Indie wedding drama is too mature for young teens.
Has its minor pleasures. But they are too few and far between to warrant sitting through the entire film.
With its tart dialogue and its perfect ending, it is sensitive as well as sagacious. It’s a rare combination.
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Niederhoffer wears her influences proudly on her sleeve, but crosses that line between homage and mimicry, making it difficult to hear her own voice as a filmmaker.
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A middling little movie that tries to trespass on Bergman-Renoir territory and simply isn't adroit enough to pull it off...
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Holmes is completely implausible as an insecure outsider, while Paquin isn't nearly threatening enough as her perfect rival.
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Just in time for hurricane season, this perfect storm of pretentiousness blows into a theater near you.
Neo-screwball small talk cinema, Katie Holmes on doormat duty, and Candice Bergen as a neurotic, sour conventional mom setting back women's lib way into the last century, when she conversely reigned as leading small screen feminist on Murphy Brown.
Proves unsatisfying not only because of its unlikable characters and often contrived conflicts but for the thoroughly implausible bride and groom at its core.
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The Romantics is a misnomer. "The Spoiled Melodramatics" would be more accurate. Or better yet, "The Pretentious Ones."
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One of the best qualities of The Romantics is that it's a movie about the emotions and friendships of women.
This is probably not a good movie to see with your fiancée or fiancé.
Silly and pointless "mumblecore"-style movie gotten up in preppy drag.
Clumsy camera work adds to the pre-wedding jitters in writer-director Galt Niederhoffer's pashmina-thin drama about attractive self-congratulatory Yale alumni gathering for the nuptials of two of their own.
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The Romantics is the kind of bland romantic melodrama that breeds resentment instead of sympathy for its young protagonists.
The all-night orgy of stupidity that ensues is so contrived that instead of examining friendships and love, it only made me wish they had all drowned, saving us from 95 minutes of wooden, boring and inconsequential embarrassment.
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The Romantics gets much of the female chitchat right, from catty asides to sisterly chase-fights in bare feet.
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