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Sideways (2004)
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Reviews Counted:210
Fresh:203
Rotten:7
Average Rating:8.6/10
Consensus: An emotional and heartfelt comedy.
Theatrical Release: Sep 13, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $71.4M
Synopsis: A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's final days as a bachelor careens woefully sideways as he and Miles hit the gas en route to mid-life crises.... [More]
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh
Director: Alexander Payne
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Nov 1, 2007
Top CriticSideways is the first of Payne's films in which we have the chance to really care for the characters; he reins in his harsh satire better than before.
Sep 7, 2007
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Jul 14, 2007
The year's second best movie about broken and lonely people (after Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).
Oct 11, 2006
In Payne's overarching triumph, Sideways is a sensitive, to the point of disturbing, expose of love....love that can blossom with that high school hallway sweetness even in the withered garden of midlife.
Sep 27, 2006
Giamatti handily raises what could've been a pedestrian road trip romance into the stratosphere of a world-class character study
Sep 20, 2006
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Sep 10, 2006
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Dec 6, 2005
...a leisurely paced film about introspection, neurosis and finding tranquility.
Jul 25, 2005
Sideways is non-mainstream pretentiousness done right
Jul 6, 2005
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Jul 5, 2005
A relentless and painfully funny critique of masculine pretense and selfishness, of which wine fetishism is the apotheosis.
Jun 21, 2005
Maintains a deft balance between breezy joviality and understated poignancy.
May 4, 2005
Was "Sideways" worth the price of admission? Yes, but the overt sexual references make it hard for me to recommend it to anyone I might have to face later.
May 2, 2005
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