Celeste and Jesse Forever Reviews
Flicks.co.nz
Rashida Jones' first lead feature role is a likeable enough effort to step out from the tube...
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| Original Score: 3/5
3AW
The film bears a kinship with the underrated 2006 film The Break-Up; both are, for lack of a better term, post-romantic comedies by exploring the largely virgin territory of what happens long after the meet-cute, when life takes hold and love goes sour.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Irish Times
The film shows its toothless nature when it refuses to properly eviscerate Emma Roberts's silly tweenie pop star. But there are worse crimes than being just a little bit too nice.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
With its refusal to follow the usual romantic-comedy formula, this snappy and observant movie is a nice surprise.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Sun Online
Aside from the premise of two people who can't seem to separate, the storyline is nearly non-existent. All in all, rather annoying.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Little White Lies
Charming and not without its moments, but far too conventional to capture the complexity it strives for.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
There are some nice moments, but it's unbearably self-conscious and nowhere does it resemble real life.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Express
The leads are engaging enough but it's too inconsequential to make you care.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Financial Times
There is quiet, seditious verve to the way expectations are derailed and then re-railed, just as in those areas of real life that still exist even outside the expanding Sundance empire of middlebrow observationalism.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Telegraph
That title doesn't lie: the romantic comedy Celeste & Jesse Forever really does feel like Celeste and Jesse, forever.
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| Original Score: 1/5
ViewLondon
Engaging, sharply observed and refreshingly cliché-averse relationship comedy-drama with a strong script and superb central performances ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
All the wry banter and gentle soul-searching in the world can't save the audience from drifting into apathy.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The List
A flawed but intriguing take on a well-worn genre.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Digital Spy
This is an enjoyable and breezy enough watch thanks to its appealing lead duo.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Star
There are some funny moments and some sharp lines but it's the chemistry between the two likeable leads that makes this so undeniably sweet.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Scotsman
It's not a bad set-up, but the film lets everyone talk a lot without ever having much to say.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Empire Magazine
A low-fi indie that swiftly slums into terminal feyness.
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| Original Score: 2/5
FILMINK (Australia)
A sassy and charming romantic comedy where the loosely scripted laughs play authentically and sometimes painfully.
Herald Sun (Australia)
Celeste and Jesse Forever overcomes many potential limitations because its characters are so richly drawn.
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| Original Score: 3/5
