An alert, funny antisocial comedy.
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01/01/00
Denise Calls Up (1996)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:17
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.4/10
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Reviews for Denise Calls Up
Might have been more effective if the writer/director had taken the time to create characters imbued with more than token traces of humanity.
01/01/00
Top CriticInsightful comedy about keeping in touch in the modern world.
08/27/02
It's hard to care about a movie story in which the characters never meet one another or really care about one another.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe conceit of having everyone talk together almost exclusively by cell phone wears out its welcome by the halfway mark.
01/01/00
Salwen has captured and properly identified a very particular modern American species. His emergence as a filmmaker is a true event.
10/16/02
Top CriticAfter a while, besides enjoying the stories as such, we begin to enjoy the film's trickiness, almost all on the phone, as a sort of high-wire act.
01/01/00
Top CriticDoesn't go much past its gimmick, but it marks Salwen as a talent worth watching.
01/01/00
Top CriticA minor but quirkily charming comedy about alientaion, love, and folly that reflects the zeitgeist in terms of AIDS and modern technology.
06/19/06
Top CriticThe film is never really funny-ha-ha, but it never bores the viewer at all thanks to Hal Salwen's direction.
01/01/00
Even given its inherent limitations, it is interesting, unique, and thought provoking.
01/01/00
As witty as this film is, Salwen can't get around the fact that a movie about people who don't meet saddles a director with a lot of scenes focusing on one person talking to no one but a piece of machinery.
01/01/00
Yes, the movie is a bunch of skits, all right. But in the end it sketches the more elaborate portrait of funny people who don't realize how funny they really are.
01/01/00
Too slight to be a cautionary fable and not light enough to merit the term 'goofy caper.' But it sits in an enjoyable place of its own.
01/01/00
Top CriticAt only 80 minutes, it doesn't overstay its welcome, but slight though it may be, it knows how to create constant smiles.
02/14/01
Top CriticDenise Calls Up is, if limited, a surprising success.
06/05/02
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