In Search of a Midnight Kiss Reviews

It's a great feeling, isn't it, falling in love with a movie about falling in love?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

In Search Of A Midnight Kiss shows enough flashes of brightness that its more conventional business is all the more dispiriting.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Alex Holdridge has written and directed a sweet, funny little indie movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

There is no magic here. This is not Paris, these are not Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, and Holdridge's script does not give us a reason to care what happens to these characters.

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Holdridge is clever enough to keep his characters from slipping into outright narcissism, or when they do, he's familiar enough with the art of mainstream moviemaking to balance the exhausted with the ecstatic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

An offbeat looking-for-love comedy with enough fresh notes to please even jaded viewers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

What follows - walking, talking, flirting, fighting - is a charming piece of low-budget, improv-y filmmaking in the tradition of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Shot in black and white and edited extremely well, Kiss is funny and consistently credible.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a surprising charmer, a wandering modern romantic comedy with enough bittersweet aftertaste to give it substance and enough wit to keep you entertained.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Shockingly bad.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Writer/director Alex Holdridge maintains the intrigue of Wilson and Vivian's dance through a combination of naturalistic dialogue and a magical-realist style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A naturalistic mix of vulgarity and romanticism gives this independent effort a mainstream appeal.

Full Review | Original Score: B

How incongruous that while veteran studio heads prepare slates of comic book movies, the slackers behind this $12,000 gem have made one of the most mature films of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Smart dialogue, an impeccably crafted story, and eye-catching LA locations make this low-budget feature by Alex Holdridge the most worthwhile date movie I've seen in some time.

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In Search of a Midnight Kiss is frustrating and makes things difficult for itself, yet it has an undeniable allure.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

With a different cast -- and fewer saccharine-cutting jokes -- the film might be completely dismissible. But all the actors have a charm.

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Despite some scenes that have the feel of an acting or writing workshop, these are believable, complex characters. Their story has a full measure of Judd Apatow raunch, with a dash of Swingers emotional sweetness.

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Notwithstanding its quintessentially indie need to develop character through quirk rather than, y'know, characterisation...the opening fifteen or twenty minutes are actually pretty great.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

In Search of a Midnight Kiss gets L.A. like few films do. And writer-director Holdridge understands the aspiring, disappointed but still open-to-anything crowd on the fringes of show business quite persuasively.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

If it were a parody of relationship-youth pictures, In Search of a Midnight Kiss would maybe be tolerable, but writer-director Alex Holdridge seems to be playing it with a straight face.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5