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
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A minor but quirkily charming comedy about alientaion, love, and folly that reflects the zeitgeist in terms of AIDS and modern technology. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Who'd have thought a movie about people talking on the phone could be so fun?
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Salwen has captured and properly identified a very particular modern American species. His emergence as a filmmaker is a true event. Full Review |
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Insightful comedy about keeping in touch in the modern world. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Denise Calls Up is, if limited, a surprising success. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
At only 80 minutes, it doesn't overstay its welcome, but slight though it may be, it knows how to create constant smiles. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The conceit of having everyone talk together almost exclusively by cell phone wears out its welcome by the halfway mark. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The film is never really funny-ha-ha, but it never bores the viewer at all thanks to Hal Salwen's direction. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Might have been more effective if the writer/director had taken the time to create characters imbued with more than token traces of humanity. Full Review |
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