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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 03 Sep 2005

An unsuccessful attempt is made to tie all these loose threads together into one coherent story…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Denton Record-Chronicle (383) on 28 Aug 2005

an uneven, sometimes rambling journey that elicits mostly false emotion with regard to the payoff suggested by its title…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 04 Aug 2005

Overstuffed with characters and contrivances…

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By Geoff Pevere (572) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 04 Aug 2005

Roos's movie is so aggressively pleased with itself it leaves you feeling it doesn't even need an audience…

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By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 04 Aug 2005

Roos does better at imparting a sense of the striving that's inherent to L.A., letting us know, through the characters' living situations,…

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By Steve Schneider (315) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 03 Aug 2005

Having whipped up three basic story ideas, any one of which could be the basis of a decent feature, Roos throws them all in together and gussies…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 28 Jul 2005

Like the pilot for a pretentious HBO 'dramedy' that expects us to contemplate its significance during the silences that broadcast television…

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By Allison Benedikt (153) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 27 Jul 2005

Roos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy, but he bogs down every character with so much baggage that it's impossible to…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Jul 2005

A protracted parade of woefully familiar motifs from the Amerindie playbook, Happy Endings comes off like an undernourished Paul Thomas Anderson…

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By Jeremy Mathews (77) for Film Threat (5,156) on 27 Jul 2005

Roos creates a slate of interesting characters who find themselves in unexpected situations that lead to realistic--and in their own way,…

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By Jonathan W. Hickman (551) for Entertainment Insiders (294) on 27 Jul 2005

Director Roos has way too many balls in the air here. The film is long and the multiple plots distracting…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for Modamag.com (300) on 23 Jul 2005

Contrived and complicated - yet compelling - it's all about the search for contentment as lonely souls connect…

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By Thomas Delapa (487) for Boulder Weekly (487) on 21 Jul 2005

Roos' long and uneven adult comedy happily offers another captivating performance by Gyllenhaal, who purrs as a kittenish vixen…

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By Carlo Cavagna (228) for AboutFilm.com (228) on 18 Jul 2005

Worthwhile for the three leads (Kudrow, Gyllenhaal, and Coogan) and for Roos's unique perspectives as a storyteller, close captioned for cognitively…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 17 Jul 2005

Writer/director Don Roos has fashioned a funny though sometimes bleak and cynical black comedy, with multiple storylines that sometimes connect…

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By Marcy Dermansky (134) for About.com (1,470) on 17 Jul 2005

What Happy Endings really needs is more Maggie…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 16 Jul 2005

Happy Endings, like its characters, is an ambitious, if flawed, work, but there is also a touching soulful quality that cannot be denied and…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 14 Jul 2005

The serious stuff cancels out the funny stuff, and the funny stuff really isn't all that funny to begin with…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Salon.com (2,725) on 14 Jul 2005

The kind of self-conscious puzzle picture in which characters behave in ways that serve the plot but in no way resemble things that actual…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide (1,527) on 14 Jul 2005

Roos' sly, throwaway insights into the ways people deceive and undermine themselves are both ruefully funny and painfully on the mark…

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