52
Metascore
24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Ray ConlogueThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Ray ConlogueRarely does a fine movie like this have so awkward a title, or so off-putting an opening scene. But there is method in both these madnesses, and a searchingly intelligent and moving story to be told.
- 75Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerDoesn't necessarily offer anything new to the male/female dynamic, but it refuses to let Coles off the hook with an easy epiphany and a painless happily ever after.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe movie is really a sexy, emotionally true portrait of a handful of people wrestling with their impulses and trying to find their way to happiness.
- 70Film ThreatTim MerrillFilm ThreatTim MerrillIt may appear clichéd in the telling, but Chick has no use for the glib irony and rampant pop-culture sampling which has already dated "Reality Bites" and its ilk.
- 60Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterEach moment feels real, but the movie wears you out in some way. High naturalism is just as much a stylization as High Stylization. The groping nature of the conversations comes to feel as artificial as iambic pentameter.
- 60Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumI was engaged by Chick's characters...But that point passed pretty soon after the credits rolled, and nothing has come back to haunt me since.
- 50USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigSome moments in XX/XY ring true, and the honesty exposed is revelatory. But, like some relationships, this drama can be tough to endure.
- 50Austin ChronicleSteve DavisAustin ChronicleSteve DavisThe cast is an impossibly beautiful bunch of actors who could hold your attention even if they spoke nothing but gibberish, which sometimes is the case in the pillow-talk dialogue provided by director/screenwriter Chick.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenA sour portrait of Gen X yuppies who settle for adult lives that appear at once soulless and overprivileged.
- 38Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrA blandly filmed and subtext-heavy talkathon that wastes a game cast on a group of characters about whom it's almost impossible to care. If this were a cocktail party, you'd be back home with a good book already.