Dopamine Reviews

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Evocatively captures the uncertainties of being in your 20s, and the bars and cafes its characters inhabit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Never seems to say something important about love that it tries desperately to get to.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Has several parallel storylines, and all of them work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Decena treats everything with a slick, cold-edged elegance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Engaging

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

San Francisco's smart set of high-tech thinkers can still be stupid at love in this warm, winning indie DV romance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Director Mark Decena and his writing partner show a good deal of promise for their future efforts, but some bad decisions and simplistic characters keep Dopamine from being anything to fall in love with.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Nicely acted by Lloyd and the talented Livingston, it poses some major questions, and is smart enough to refrain from trying to answer them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Decena hooks us with these characters from the start and makes us believe in their pain and longing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

With its intelligent, likable characters and playful use of artificial intelligence to explore a simple love story, Dopamine is an auspicious directorial debut by Mark Decena.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Sexy, funny and just the littlest bit sad, it explores something that has fascinated men and women since time began: each other.

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In one way or another, Dopamine is about us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

It's a movie, small in compass, conservative in aesthetic, that explores an idea while it makes you laugh. A lot of bigger movies won't provoke you half as much.

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There's some chemistry between the appealing leads, and the acting is solid throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

While the route Dopamine takes in addressing the nature of attraction is schematic, the film is never less than clever, surprisingly charming, decidedly thought-provoking -- and in its own undefinable way, touching.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Decena's intelligent, thoughtful script...is buttressed by the intricate details that make what could be a superficial story into a real human affair.

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Although flawed, Dopamine is ultimately a witty and perceptive movie dealing with the ways people experience love and loss in an increasingly distracted and remote world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

There are just enough insightful and funny moments to expect big things from writer/director Marc Decena next time around.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

It's more likable than it is good. Still, it might leave you feeling romantic (and romantic about your particular city) even if it doesn't nail its case for love in a psychopharmacological age.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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