[Director Theroux] has a tendency to overplay things, with self-consciously arty direction and an intrusive soundtrack.

Directed by actor Justin Theroux with a surprisingly saccharine hand, the film is neither believable nor novel.

Theroux brings none of the electric surprise or intensity of his acting to bear on the movie. He seems unhappy with the assignment.

A well-acted comedy-drama that may feature the most disagreeable gang of characters to populate any movie this year. Too bad they're not quite as much fun to watch.

Crudup delivers a bracing, uncompromising performance, but it's unmistakably a solo turn in a romantic comedy that's supposed to be about the blurring of egos and the fusing of two idiosyncratic voices into a single harmonious duet.

Crudup exhibits admirable restraint. The story would be more compelling, however, had we not seen the same thing before in As Good as It Gets.

Dedication is engaging for a while, but flits from style to style, from dark to loopy comedy, only to settle on gooey romance.

Gratingly hip, joyless, small-budget Dedication is just another example of what New Yorker magazine recently identified as the 'slacker-striver' trope in today's romances.

A film that subjects us to one of the more irritating and unlikable leading men in recent romantic comedy history.