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Just a Kiss

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Just a Kiss (2002)

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Reviews Counted:60

Fresh:11

Rotten:49

Average Rating:4/10

Consensus: With annoying characters and gimmicks, the romantic comedy Just a Kiss is neither touching nor funny.

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack,... Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack, a sexy cast, and expert use of digital animation. The first scenes, while the credits are still rolling, are some of the most dramatic in the film simply because of the near total use of brightly colored, graffiti-like animation. After those first sequences, the animation is used only for emphasis on certain details, or to depict fantasies, and the film takes on a more traditional style. JUST A KISS follows a group of friends--couples Dag (Ron Eldard) and Hallie (Kyra Sedgewick), Pete (Patrick Breen) and Rebecca (Marley Shelton), Andre (Taye Diggs) and Colleen (Sarita Choudhury), and the one black sheep, Paula (Marisa Tomei); as they learn the hard way that a kiss is never just a kiss. The film's themes of constant, inevitable infidelity and constant, inevitable sex are played out so obviously that the result is hilarious, cruel, and poignant. In addition, the imagination behind some of the gags in the film is nothing short of brilliant. JUST A KISS is a must-see comedy that will keep audience members smirking long after the movie ends. [More]

Starring: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Taye Diggs, Ron Eldard

Starring: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Taye Diggs, Ron Eldard, Marley Shelton, Sarita Choudhury, Patrick Breen

Director: Fisher Stevens

Director: Fisher Stevens
Screenwriter: Patrick Breen
Producer: Matthew Rowland
Studio: Paramount Classics

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Most of the actors struggle with the clunky dialogue and often look almost as uncomfortable delivering it as you’ll feel sitting there watching them do so.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
09/24/03
Rachel Sanders
Rachel Sanders
Apollo Guide
N/R

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Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
10/11/02
Arizona Republic

It's coherent, well shot, and tartly acted, but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
10/04/02
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
10/05/02
Boston Phoenix

What the centerless, random-feeling Just a Kiss needs is something a little more solid for the audience to latch onto.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
07/29/02
Michael Tunison
Michael Tunison
Boxoffice Magazine

We have poignancy jostling against farce, thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners, and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except, maybe, that it looks neat.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
10/18/02
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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For the most part Stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
10/17/02
Robert K. Elder
Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune

So pretentious and off-putting, that even without annoying gimmicks and misplaced humor it would be hard to find it anything but irritating.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
10/04/02
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com

Occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
10/18/02
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

Overembellished to distraction.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
10/17/02
Tom Sime
Tom Sime
Dallas Morning News

Winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
10/26/02
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News

The rather unlikable, unsympathetic characters make what is less than 90 minutes seem much, much longer.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
10/18/02
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

This one makes Friends look like high art.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
10/04/02
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press

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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
01/31/03
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

There's plenty of ponderings about fate and fidelity in this quirky romantic comedy, but for all its deep delving, there's little point to the story.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
10/04/02
E! Online

This is one pretentious mess.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
09/30/02
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper

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Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
10/07/02
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

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08/07/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Uncertain in tone... a garbled exercise in sexual politics, a junior varsity Short Cuts by way of Very Bad Things.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
09/23/02
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

While the film is, indeed, freewheeling, some of us prefer to call it out of control.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
08/26/02
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film
 
 
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