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09/04/09
Paper Heart (2009)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:11
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Equal parts charming and refreshing, Paper Heart is a quirky mockumentary led by the endearing Charlyne Yi.
Theatrical Release:Aug 7, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $1,149,350
Synopsis: Charlyne Yi does not believe in love. Or so she says. Well, at the very least, she doesn’t believe in fairy-tale love or the Hollywood mythology of love, and her own experiences have turned her... [More]
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Reviews for Paper Heart
Top Critic[An] unbearably twee mockumentary about the meaning of love.
08/20/09
Top CriticIt's easy to see how this quirky, offbeat approach could seem refreshing within the rarefied, hermetic atmosphere of a festival. Elsewhere, however, it comes across as amateurish and considerably less charming.
08/11/09
Top CriticIt felt completely inauthentic.
08/10/09
Top CriticThere’s a lot to love here.
08/10/09
Top CriticThis breach with the audience does matter, for it is one thing to seduce your viewers and quite another to trick them. Love is all about trust, after all.
08/07/09
Top CriticFunny, passionate and honest.
08/07/09
Top CriticPaper Heart is like a really special five-minute YouTube clip that goes on for an hour and a half.
08/07/09
Top CriticPaper Heart manages to work the meta mostly magically thanks to the sensibility brought by Yi, whose stand-up persona blends a childlike naiveté with an almost perpetual state of shy embarrassment.
08/07/09
Top CriticSlight, silly, sweet and, yes, quirky, Paper Heart doesn't really have a whole lot to say, but it says it in a unique and inventive way.
08/07/09
Top CriticPaper Heart is a cute movie, a little too cute and a little too aware of its own cuteness.
08/07/09
Top CriticOnly intermittently engaging and too timid to be satisfactorily funny or insightful.
08/07/09
Top CriticEven the most cynical are likely to be won over by the unassuming charms of Paper Heart.
08/07/09
Top CriticStill, the stylistic games reflect Yi and her generation’s larger dilemma. Paper Heart is a movie that can’t commit about people who don’t know how to.
08/07/09
Top CriticUnlike the sublime (500) Days of Summer, which also had to do with young romance, ambivalence and rethinking the notion of happy endings, Paper Heart never transcends its twee, hyper-self-aware niche.
08/07/09
Top CriticYour appreciation for this shaggy dog project will probably depend on your enjoyment of Yi as a screen presence.
08/07/09
Top CriticEnjoying this wondrous wisp of a something is easy, describing it is hard. Luckily, Charlyne Yi is an enchantress.
08/06/09
Top CriticA quasi-documentary about love that is sweet, true and perhaps a little deceptive.
08/06/09
Top CriticThis diverting riff is as much a spoof of film-school self-seriousness as it is a sincere art project, enhanced by Yi's great, homemade puppets.
08/05/09
Top CriticA "hybrid documentary" that bemusedly blurs the line between fact and fiction.
08/05/09
Top CriticLatest News for Paper Heart
August 06, 2009:
Critics Consensus: It's Quiet For G.I. Joe. Too Quiet.
This week at the movies, we got real American heroes (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, starring Dennis Quaid and Sienna Miller); kitchen chronicles (Julie & Julia, starring Meryl... More...
August 06, 2009:
Box Office Guru Preview: Go, Joe!
Some real American heroes look to storm the box office this weekend as Paramount unleashes its latest toy franchise film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Sony counters with the... More...
July 28, 2009:
Paper Heart Contest Winners Announced!
We want to thank everyone who submitted love poems to our Paper Heart Twitter Contest! Paper Heart's very own Charlyne Yi and director Nick Jasenovec personally read through... More...
July 27, 2009:
Comic-Con Wrap: Iron Man 2, New Moon Best In Show
The truth about Sunday at this year's Comic-Con is that it was the day most people skipped - even the Hollywood studios. With only two film panels slated for the day (Overture's... More...
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