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Maverick405

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I stumbled across this film by accident and although it lokked to be slightly bizarre, even a bit boring to start with, I couldn't stop watching it.
I'm so glad that I continued as it is such a fantastic movie. The interplay between the...
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I stumbled across this film by accident and although it lokked to be slightly bizarre, even a bit boring to start with, I couldn't stop watching it.
I'm so glad that I continued as it is such a fantastic movie. The interplay between the characters, the scenery, the situations. My favourite scene is when one of the main characters has to recover his wallet and escapes from the house running down the street, naked.
I would therefore thouroughly recommend this movie to everyone, but stick with it as it starts a bit slowly, it'll be worth it in the end.

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Posted apr 15, 2008 6:11 pm pt

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Seriously, one of the most overrated movies of all time. While, it does have great cinamatography and acting, it is hardly funny and kind of pointless. I would not even recommend a rental.

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Posted jun 19, 2007 11:00 am pt

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"Rent It - A clever film with a sometimes hard to relate to humor and an annoying drive to be unique and independent."

Bottom line an independent market film that plays to the art house crowd and leaves casual viewers in...
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"Rent It - A clever film with a sometimes hard to relate to humor and an annoying drive to be unique and independent."

Bottom line an independent market film that plays to the art house crowd and leaves casual viewers in dust. Good if you want something original.

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Posted may 11, 2007 6:43 am pt

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I love this movie. I really think its a great movie worth a rental. Now I know there are some of you out there who do not like this movie but what can I say. I really liked it. I think the acting is great highlighted by Giamatti. The story is of a...
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I love this movie. I really think its a great movie worth a rental. Now I know there are some of you out there who do not like this movie but what can I say. I really liked it. I think the acting is great highlighted by Giamatti. The story is of a man who is going to get married and he goes on a weekend with his friend and they get into all kinds of trouble. The movie is very funny and touching. Ultimately I find this movie being a love story with a cliff hanger ending that leaves you thinking. I highly recommend this movie for the acting, the comedy for everything. Its a great great movie but I have to say there are a select few who do not like this movie.

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Posted mar 16, 2007 11:06 pm pt

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"Sideways" was such a cool movie that stars one of the most underrated actors of our time--Paul Giamatti. I also loved Thomas Haden Church in this movie too. The cinematography was gorgeous and the movie was really funny too.

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Posted feb 26, 2007 4:57 am pt

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one of the best movies of the year. set in wine country with the landcape being done very well.

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Posted feb 17, 2007 11:45 am pt

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These people... their lives rotate around alcohol (wine). They need to seriously look into some rehab! And that one guy thinks it's okay to cheat on his fiancee? Come ON. Filthy!

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Posted dec 19, 2006 5:37 am pt

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Election is the best film from Alexander Payne! Sideways not my favorite

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Posted dec 12, 2006 3:19 am pt

• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  100
  Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  100
  In Sideways, Payne has created four of the most lived-in, indelible characters in recent American movies. This deliciously bittersweet movie makes magic out of the quotidian.

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  100
  Sweetest, funniest, most humane movie I've seen all year.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  100
  This is a building-block movie: Its stand-out excellence becomes apparent only gradually.

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  100
  A sublime variation on the buddy road movie, infusing the midlife crises of the two main protagonists with hope and poetry.

  by Megan Lehmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  100
  The best comedy of 2004. In fact, it's so far the best movie of the year.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  100
  Sideways is by far the year's best American movie.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  100
  A boisterous, brilliant, heart-warming comedy--strikes me as just about perfect.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  100
  Exhilarating, edgy and wryly comic.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  100
  One of the most pleasurable movies of the year.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  100
  Not a masterpiece, but definitely one of the year's most entertaining movies.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  100
  Every performance here is wonderful, and the movie abounds in moments so true as to be cringe-worthy.

  by Glenn Kenny | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  100
  Pure movie bliss.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
  100
  Sideways makes you glad about America, about movies, about life.

  by Joe Morgenstern | Read Full Review »