Say Anything... Reviews
7M Pictures
This is an iconic role for John Cusack and easily one of the movies that made him such a respectable actor today.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Common Sense Media
A gem of a coming-of-age story.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Slant Magazine
Say Anything was a singularly three-dimensional teen romance after a decade of broad gags and breakfast-club stereotypes in John Hughesland.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Film4
One of the very best teen movies.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticCusack and Skye's relationship develops nicely and believably, but Crowe has not written an entirely convincing character for the latter to play.
Empire Magazine
Rewarding if slightly off-beat, and genuinely funny.
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| Original Score: 4/5
At last, a teenage love story with real characters instead of cliches, poses, and attitudes.
Combustible Celluloid
John Cusack has unwittingly become Generation X's romantic screen icon.
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| Original Score: 3/4
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Great dialogue, dead-on performances from all three leads, Cusack, Skye and Mahoney, a nice romance, cool soundtrack and some funny lines.
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| Original Score: 7/10
he love story is as old-fashioned as the jokes are old hat, but Crowe's amusing script and unforced direction allow the actors to develop reasonably authentic characters from stereotypical roles.
New Times
Even as a cynical, anti-romantic teen, I loved this movie.
| Original Score: 5/5
Filmcritic.com
Cameron Crowe crafts one of his best films around the end-of-high-school ennui and the uncertainties that come with that time in your life, but Say Anything... is aging faster than you might think, despite its many classic lines and moments.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Reel Film Reviews
...one of the best movies about young love ever made.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A far cry from the standard Hollywood teen romance.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Spirituality and Practice
Writer and director Cameron Crowe has taken the hackneyed subject of teenage love and given it some freshness.
The film is all charming performances and grace notes, but there are plenty of worse things to be.
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| Original Score: 3/5
eFilmCritic.com
John Cusack proved his quirky leading man charm here. Ione Skye is sublime.
| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
Without a shadow of a doubt the most rewarding, funny, and likable romance of the last twenty years. It heralds the decency of romantic love against the gears of a cold, grinding mechanical world.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Netflix
Cameron Crowe's directorial debut gets a fully loaded DVD that demonstrates the best -- and worst -- of all his films.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Montreal Film Journal
You know that feeling when you're watching a movie for the first time, and it grabs you right away and it gets better and better until the very end? This is one of these very special films.
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| Original Score: 4/4
