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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThere's no other film like it. It's embarrassingly frank and self-revealing, sometimes funny, sometimes creepy, sometimes both.
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceCaveh Zahedi's one-of-a-kind movie--a funny, inventive, ground-shifting hybrid of essay film, mea culpa, and pathological real-life romantic farce--aims for truth by wrecking its own verisimilitude.
- 70Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThis deconstructive, minimalist comedy, like his 1990 "A Little Stiff" and 1994 "I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore," re-creates events with the vain self-deprecation of one of his role models, Woody Allen.
- 70VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungHits its stride from the opening scenes and continues hilariously for a while, before declining into more of same. Its undeniable appeal lies in shocking frankness shackled to irony, a combo that should attract indie lovers with psychoanalytic leanings and droll senses of humor.
- 63TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghZahedi has been compared to Woody Allen, and he shares Allen's neurotic sense of entitlement and navel-gazing fascination with his own sexual peccadilloes. Whether you find either man funny or infuriating depends in large part on whether you identify more with their narcissistic quests for self-knowledge or the collateral damage left in their wakes.
- 63New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThe way he presents his romantic history is both clever and entertaining, but after a while the story becomes tediously familiar.
- The movie is a minor triumph of sincerity, neatly skirting the pitfalls of narcissism and unexamined misogyny. It never mugs for our good will, only our witness, which it rewards with honesty and wit.
- 60SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirThis film is an inevitable product of our age, and enjoyable, right up to whatever your ickiness threshold is.
- 40The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneAs for the overriding reason to see the film, that's easy. Lighten Zahedi's complexion, stuff him in a fright wig, and this fellow would be a ringer for Harpo Marx.
- 25New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoNow that even Woody Allen has stopped making "Woody Allen movies," you would think that wannabes would move on, too.