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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 21 May 2014

The charmingly self-destructive Owen and the spiky Binoche make an interesting match..Fred Schepisi is an old pro who knows how to sand off…

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By Adam Markovitz (84) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 20 May 2014

It’s a rom-com setup lamer than anything in the Barrymore-Sandler canon, but Binoche and Owen tackle it like high drama and eke out a few…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 May 2014

Words And Pictures is supposed to be divided, as equally as its title, between these two characters…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 20 May 2014

Words and Pictures is the cloying title of a cloying little comedy made by talented people who, not that long ago, deserved better than this,…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 20 May 2014

Clive Owen stumbles around the scenery doing unfortunate drunken-writer shtick in Words and Pictures, a formula movie whose script is yet more…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 20 May 2014

Aspiring to be an intelligent, sophisticated date-night offering, this romantic comedy-drama is torpedoed by artificial conflict and chronic…

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By Matthew Kassel (27) for New York Observer (1,400) on 20 May 2014

Words and Pictures doesn’t possess the tender grace of Enough Said, Nicole Holofcener’s wonderful film about middle-aged love…

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By Rex Roberts (125) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 May 2014

A rom-com that knows its demographic -- boomers coping with the heartache and natural shocks that flesh is heir to -- Words and Pictures is…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 May 2014

Owen and Binoche's vigorous, battle-scarred performances, prop up Words and Pictures even when its plotting resorts to unbelievable devices…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 19 May 2014

Schepisi does nothing inventive visually, and the stars can’t find the humanity beneath Di Pego’s dialogue, generate much romantic chemistry,…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 19 May 2014

It's not so much that the film has a stock plot (though it does) - it's more how every single acting, dialogue, editorial, and directional…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 19 May 2014

Owen and Binoche bring so much to the story as a whole that it's hard not to be won over once it gets past the rom-com cliches we've seen so…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 18 May 2014

Both the words and the pictures are surprisingly flaccid, largely due to Gerald DiPego’s literate but hopelessly contrived screenplay and…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 May 2014

At least the irony with which this transparently written and dispassionately aestheticized film so demagogically argues for the value of words…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 16 May 2014

Fairly intriguing romance aside, this is a clever examination of the role taken by words on the one hand and pictures on the other…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 10 Apr 2014

Owen and Binoche expertly punch across the passion of their characters…

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By Anna Tatarska (35) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 13 Mar 2014

[Owen and Binoche] manage to create such intriguing, multidimensional and relatable characters that viewers will willingly follow their relationship…

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By Ed Gibbs (248) for sbs.com.au (697) on 21 Feb 2014

An ill-fitting, occasionally awkward yarn that crackles at times (thanks to its charming leads), but struggles to fire…

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