Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 34
The characters are both unsympathetic and uninteresting.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 14
The characters are both unsympathetic and uninteresting.
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 2,914
A man finds himself having to decide between one of two women -- not once, but twice -- in this independent drama. In 1993, Coles (Mark Ruffalo) is a film student at Sarah Lawrence where he meets two fellow undergrads, Thea (Kathleen Robertson) and Sam (Maya Stange). Coles and Sam come together and Thea fades out of the picture. In time, Sam tires of Coles' aimlessly hedonistic attitude, and they break up. Ten years later, Coles, after a failed career in feature films, is doing animation for an
Oct 24, 2003 Wide
Jul 29, 2003
IFC Films
All Critics (69) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (34) | DVD (5)
With its talky and theatricalized depiction of cruelties mutually inflicted by financially comfortable good-looking young white people on each other, XX/XY at times recalls a slightly more full-blooded Neil LaBute movie.
Rarely does a fine movie like this have so awkward a title.
Ruffalo continues to be one of the most intriguing actors of his generation.
There's probably a movie in XX/XY, but director Austin Chick doesn't seem to have found it.
XX/XY expresses and explores this universal yearning without becoming stuck in it. In this and many other respects, few movies are so mature and satisfying.
It never addresses the underlying issue on which those relationships hinge: Is Coles still in love with Sam, or is he just in love with what she represents.
Succeeds as an amusing critique rather than an empty-headed endorsement of its protagonists' behaviour.
Entertained, enlightened and engaged.
Basically it's just a chick flick about people obsessing constantly over sex and relationships! But the performances make it watchable.
XX/XY is a lovely film and very smart, and it's for grownups. That's a rare pleasure.
"XX/XY" starts in 1993 in New York City. After Coles(Mark Ruffalo), an artist and aspiring filmmaker, gracefully jumps a turnstile in the subway, he notices a comely young woman, Sam(Maya Stange), and follows her back to a party at Saint Lawrence College where he strikes up a conversation with her. Luckily for him,
August 10, 2006Super Reviewer
A favorite.
January 3, 2008Super Reviewer
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