Dedication
First Look International | Release Date: August 24, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
7
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Chicago ReaderJoshua Katzman
Actor Justin Theroux makes an impressive directorial debut, aided by David Bromberg's mordantly funny dialogue. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
A pleasingly weird, dryly funny little indie. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Dedication works anyway, thanks to Theroux's jumping visuals and Crudup's jumpy performance. Read full review
70
Film ThreatZack Haddad
This is a decent flick, it is just I have seen this a few times before. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Crudup delivers a bracing, uncompromising performance, but it's unmistakably a solo turn in a romantic comedy that's supposed to be about the blurring of egos and the fusing of two idiosyncratic voices into a single harmonious duet. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerGianni Truzzi
To director Justin Theroux's credit, he differentiates his film with a dusky visual style that reflects Henry's murky interior. He uses the grit of his Manhattan locations to give outward expression to Henry's volatile, selfish and terrified state of mind. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
Dedication would've been better if it had stuck to its disreputable guns instead of going all mushy and predictable, and slathering an emo soundtrack over everything. Read full review
60
SlateDana 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
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Individual scenes in actor Justin Theroux's directorial debut possess a certain flair, but the central issue on which the story turns -- how obnoxious and mean-spirited can you be and still get someone to love you? -- presents a forbidding obstacle. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
A strong cast that flounders in profoundly unappealing material. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette 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
50
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Frame by frame, Crudup is fascinating. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
In the end, all the bitterness seems like window-dressing to disguise a trite story. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
It's a romantic comedy, though neither funny nor romantic. It's a ghost story, though not scary. It's a satire about publishing, but without teeth. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeWesley 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
30
Village VoiceAaron 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
30
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
Tiresome, pretentious. Read full review
30
Washington PostHank 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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