| Miramax Films | Release Date: November 17, 2000 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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5
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Critic Reviews
Roos combines a sharp script with excellent performances.
Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow are so immensely appealing, and their chemistry together is so unforced, that their presence alone makes a movie worth seeing. Thankfully, Bounce has even more going for it.
Roos introduces the possibility that perhaps two partials add up to the whole truth, and in so doing creates a provocative love story that sticks with you long after the credits roll.
There's nothing in Bounce you haven't seen before, but the movie is surprisingly unsentimental, the Paltrow factor cannot be denied.
Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.
Beneath the plot's romantic turns lies a surprisingly complex examination of the personal and professional price of honesty; falsehoods, half-truths, little white lies and self-delusion spur most of the key plot developments, and Roos never resorts to platitudes to account for their effects.
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Doesn't really work when examined in the daylight outside the theater doors.
If I wanted a Nora Ephron cuddle-ganza, I'd rent one.
The most depressing date movie since "Random Hearts."
Isn't sexy, funny, smart or fun.
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