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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…

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

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

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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)…

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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…

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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?)…

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

I really, really wanted to love this movie…

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

Nice surprise of a movie, beautiful cinematography…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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

So subtle and subdued that it nearly undercuts itself…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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