Medicine for Melancholy (2009) - Movie Reviews - Page 4 of 5

61-80 of 85 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Feb 2009

The narrative, at times, veers into overstatement, but for the most part we're allowed to eavesdrop on their self-examination guilt-free…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Ted Fry (163) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 19 Feb 2009

A hazy, nuanced and remarkably assured debut from filmmaker Barry Jenkins…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Chris W (2,796) on 16 Feb 2009

For a rare, indy film, this was great to see on the big screen (at the Detroit Film Theater)…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Matthew L (1,720) on 14 Feb 2009

Beautiful, sublime love story about a one night stand between two people who having nothing in common other than the color of their skin…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Karen G (231) on 12 Feb 2009

Why does one never see an indian guy with a black girl. Or an asian girl with a black guy (unless he is a pimp?)…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Private U (13,627) on 09 Feb 2009

I really, really wanted to love this movie…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Michael C (2,821) on 07 Feb 2009

Nice surprise of a movie, beautiful cinematography…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Walter M (1,360) on 07 Feb 2009

[font=Century Gothic]Medicine for Melancholy starts on a Sunday morning following a very wild party in San Francisco…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 02 Feb 2009

Jenkins is so desperate to give his love story a social and economic context that he stops the movie cold for a bunch of unrelated white people…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By V.a. Musetto (698) for New York Post (6,650) on 30 Jan 2009

The film falters only when it eavesdrops briefly on a passionate public discussion of rent control and gentrification…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 30 Jan 2009

Cenac is witty and Heggins has a wary stillness, but the movie itself seems too shy to let them really engage each other…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 30 Jan 2009

The film weaves an intriguing commentary on race, class and personal identity, but the trick of minimalism is to hide ideas inside sparse scenes,…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 30 Jan 2009

Two African-Americans together in San Francisco for a weekend trying to take a one-night stand to a more intimate level…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Screengrab (12) on 30 Jan 2009

Concluding on a fittingly less-than-happy note, the promising but uneven film knows what it wants to say, if not, ultimately, exactly how to say it…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 30 Jan 2009

So subtle and subdued that it nearly undercuts itself…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Jan 2009

The movie's ideas float atop it like whipped cream on coffee, but the actors' chemistry makes for a pleasant, unassuming walk-and-talk…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Jan 2009

Jenkins's dialogue is crisp and witty, sounding and flowing the way real people speak. But it's also shrewdly nuanced…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jan 2009

The occasional moments of genuine beauty are unsurprisingly visual but the ubiquitous editorializing urges us to dismiss the scant poetic potential…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Prairie Miller (985) for NewsBlaze (855) on 21 Jan 2009

This stormy stranger sex gentrification romance is a kind of one day stand steamy encounter, also spotlighting hot topics confronting young…

Read Review

Review of Medicine for Melancholy (2009)

By Rumsey Taylor (94) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 17 Oct 2008

The film is more ambient than my description will convey, and it doesn't feel scripted or directed in as much as it feels naturally funny and relaxed…

Read Review

Page 4 of 5

More reviews of this movie:

Wyatt Cenac - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

My Best Friend's Girl

2008

52%32 Reviews

Room in Rome

2010

58%103 Reviews

Something Borrowed

2011

51%701 Reviews

#Stuck

2014

47%10 Reviews

Breezy

1973

66%37 Reviews

Seeing Other People

2004

50%73 Reviews

The Long Weekend

2005

41%111 Reviews

Trucker

2008

63%101 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Terrifier 2

2022

65%48 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Medicine for Melancholy

2009

63%85 Reviews

Howard the Duck

1986

43%685 Reviews

Youth in Revolt

2009

65%645 Reviews

Grave Encounters

2011

55%656 Reviews

The Wrestler

1971

74%738 Reviews

Working Girl

1988

71%513 Reviews

Ali

2001

66%648 Reviews

Body Heat

1981

77%322 Reviews

Enlighten Up!

2008

69%44 Reviews

Taking Woodstock

2009

59%655 Reviews