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By Michael N (591) on 09 Jan 2008

Dialogue got a little stagey at times, but some nice, slow pacing really helped you settle into harmony, alabama, ca. 1950…

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By Stax (77) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 08 Jan 2008

Honeydripper is a decent but lesser entry in the unique and praiseworthy oeuvre of John Sayles, a maverick filmmaker who has done more to showcase…

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By Thomas L (876) on 07 Jan 2008

Not one of John Sayles' best works, but it's okay. It's worth seeing at least once, for no other reason than the cast…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 03 Jan 2008

Honeydripper offers a leisurely, atmospheric production with lots of time to appreciate his largely African-American cast, along with rocking…

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By Tomaszw. (2) on 03 Jan 2008

Honeydripper is an embarrassing failure on many fronts mercilessly exposing Sayles's deficiencies as a director and a total lack of talent…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 02 Jan 2008

There are precisely zero surprises in how things play out--the main thread is basically Big Night revisited--but the film gets better as it…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 02 Jan 2008

Like previous films by the literary-minded auteur John Sayles, Honeydripper takes forever to develop its characters, its period and its location…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 02 Jan 2008

The movie is well-acted, but it's as talky as if it were written for the stage, with fatally slow pacing…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 02 Jan 2008

It's a lovely portrait of a fabled time and place, but wasn't there a bit of ugliness, too…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for New York Times (5,786) on 02 Jan 2008

Honeydripper is agreeable, well-intentioned and very, very slow. Sadly, it illustrates the difference between an archetype and a stereotype…

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By Jon T (527) on 31 Dec 2007

First must acknowledge that I am a dyed-in-the-wool Sayles fan…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 30 Dec 2007

Sonny Blake turns out a literally electric performance on his electric guitar…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 28 Dec 2007

Life in a black Alabama community in the 1950s and the frantic efforts of a juke joint manager to keep his club open…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 27 Dec 2007

Everything got a rhythm, even pulling cotton off the plant,'' a field hand offers helpfully…

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By Shlomo Schwartzberg (122) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 26 Dec 2007

This likable, laidback movie goes down well, a pleasant dash of Southern Comfort with some great tunes mixed into the batch…

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By Lane W (64) on 26 Dec 2007

Honeydripper features good performances and nice music, but it relies on cliches and the pacing is never consistent…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 24 Dec 2007

Falls quite short of its mark, mostly due to the poor casting as well as a deathly slow pace that far too often veers away from [the film's]…

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By Tony C (474) on 24 Dec 2007

It was nice to see a different story, but it was too slow for me. The most interesting character was new comer Gary Clark, Jr…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Dec 2007

John Sayles's mediocre Honeydipper is flanked by two great scenes…

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By Steven B (910) on 22 Nov 2007

Great Performances. Should have been shorter…

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