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90
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Friendship matters to those of us who still claim membership in the human race, and Goldbacher's merciless autopsy on it is both illuminating and dispiriting.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."
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80
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Michelle Williams turns in a performance that is seamless, canny and artistically mature.
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75
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
A chick movie? Well, yes, but it's a whole lot cooler than that one with the "Ya-Ya's" in the title.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle
A powerful new film from British writer-director Sandra Goldbacher.
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75
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Chicago Tribune
The only the bum steer in Me Without You comes in the person of Daniel, played by Kyle MacLachlan of "Twin Peaks" fame. It's hard to tell whether MacLachlan was dealt a bum hand in an otherwise fine screenplay or acted on auto-pilot.
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70
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
Under its drab contemporary trappings, the movie, is really a Jane Austen-like moral parable in which goodness is rewarded and selfishness punished.
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70
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
An engaging, straightforward narrative about two childhood playmates and the stages of their friendship from 1973 to 2001.
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63
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
More predictable than it ought to be - you can set your watch by the appearance of the mournful Nick Drake song on the soundtrack.
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50
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Tough, unsentimental British film.
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