XX/XY (2003)
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Kathleen Robertson, Maya Stange, Petra Wright, David Thornton
Screenwriter: Austin Chick
Producer: Mitchell B. Robbins, Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof
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Reviews
Succeeds as an amusing critique rather than an empty-headed endorsement of its protagonists' behaviour.
Basically it's just a chick flick about people obsessing constantly over sex and relationships! But the performances make it watchable.
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.
XX/XY is a lovely film and very smart, and it's for grownups. That's a rare pleasure.
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.
There really is no moral to XX/XY except perhaps "beware of love"
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.


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