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By Damian O (22) on 29 Aug 2007

I read Hawke's short novel when it first came out and truth be told I couldn't remember much about it as I walked into the cinema last night…

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By Scott Brown (113) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Aug 2007

Whatever you're imagining -- self-serving self-awareness; unedited hipster mopes; yammering dear-diary script -- The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke's…

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By Anita J (18) on 24 Aug 2007

It looks like it'a good movie... I want to see it…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Maxim (189) on 24 Aug 2007

Boy meets girl. Boy shacks up with girl. Boy almost marries girl. Girl loses interest in boy. Boy loses girl.Boy and girl lose audience…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 23 Aug 2007

A viewing of The Hottest State is likely to conclude with a crosstown sprint of a different kind: As soon as the credits start rolling, you…

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By Lisa Rose (163) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 23 Aug 2007

The film is best appreciated as a meditation on celebrity psychology…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 23 Aug 2007

Hawke, who is very good as the young man's estranged father, had best stick to what he does best…

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By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 23 Aug 2007

Hawke the director indulges Hawke the writer a bit, but there's no denying the beauty of the language and imagery contained in The Hottest State…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 22 Aug 2007

Listen, if you're not predisposed to untrained method actors exploiting their worst instincts, State is going to feel like a thunderstorm of…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Aug 2007

At times this indie is as repetitive and self-indulgent as its protagonist, but it captures a bit of the madness of being unrequitedly in love…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for New York Press (561) on 21 Aug 2007

Having written the source material, Hawke had veto power of his characters' individual quirks before he put them in front of a camera…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 20 Aug 2007

Hawke has made this movie his way and the result is a story that is by turns romantic and disquieting. It's well worth the price of admission…

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By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Aug 2007

Hawke quite capably taps into the bittersweet complexities of young, love-struck idiocy…

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By Tommy B (113) on 17 Aug 2007

Very well made and interesting to see this sort of drama done from a male perspective. I admired it more than loved it, though…

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By Fiona H (79) on 13 Aug 2007

I read the book and I believe is an amazing story…

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By Lan H (3) on 13 Aug 2007

Ethan hawke does an amazing job, 2 hot chicks in it :)…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Jul 2007

Patchy lead perfs and mannered helming subtract value from pic's tangible plus points (solid supporting turns, pleasant score)…

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By Anthony M (1,059) on 23 Jul 2007

Amazing movie, ethan hawke book was great and I think the movie did a good job on getting it on screen…

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By Daniel M (2,592) on 27 Jun 2007

This is an amazing movie…

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By Matt Z (89) on 23 Jun 2007

Read the book many years ago and loved it, hope the movie'll also be good…

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