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This coming-of-age film's young, attractive cast helps to mitigate the stultifying dialogue and uninspired direction.
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The Swiss-quartz comic timing of the film's ensemble cast makes its neurotic characters more compelling than your average cinematic slackers. Apr 25, 2006 | Full Review…
The Swiss-quartz comic timing of the film's ensemble cast makes its neurotic characters more compelling than your average cinematic slackers.
Erin Clements
This is a hit and miss romantic comedy with a few solid laughs and some pretty smart dialogue. Apr 24, 2006
This is a hit and miss romantic comedy with a few solid laughs and some pretty smart dialogue.
Richard Roeper
Don't send a gift. Send your regrets. This is one wedding invitation that can clearly, safely be declined. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/4
Don't send a gift. Send your regrets. This is one wedding invitation that can clearly, safely be declined.
Stephen Whitty
The aptly named Standing Still, about postcollegiate 20-somethings, has the dramatic momentum of a daisy-picking toddler. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/5
The aptly named Standing Still, about postcollegiate 20-somethings, has the dramatic momentum of a daisy-picking toddler.
Jeannette Catsoulis
Relentlessly shallow. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 1/4
Relentlessly shallow.
Lou Lumenick
A movie as inert as its title. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 2/4
A movie as inert as its title.
Jami Bernard
...a progressively endearing effort that boasts several superb performances and a brisk, downright fun sensibility. May 8, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
...a progressively endearing effort that boasts several superb performances and a brisk, downright fun sensibility.
David Nusair
An independent, dialogue-heavy film that from the looks of it was made more with fun and passion than money. Apr 25, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An independent, dialogue-heavy film that from the looks of it was made more with fun and passion than money.
Phil Villarreal
I continue to enjoy Van Der Beek's willingness to play obnoxiously against type -- it turns out as a big-headed hero, he's boring, but as a big-headed ***, he's a funny guy. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4
I continue to enjoy Van Der Beek's willingness to play obnoxiously against type -- it turns out as a big-headed hero, he's boring, but as a big-headed ***, he's a funny guy.
Dan Fienberg
The efforts of an attractive and accomplished cast ensure that director Matthew Cole Weiss' feature debut is neither as dull nor as insufferably smug as it could easily have been. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The efforts of an attractive and accomplished cast ensure that director Matthew Cole Weiss' feature debut is neither as dull nor as insufferably smug as it could easily have been.
Maitland McDonagh
There's just simply not one iota of originality to this exceedingly superficial and charm-deprived ensemble film. It doesn't help that most of the characters come across as entitled, navel-gazing twits without a smidgen of depth. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/4
There's just simply not one iota of originality to this exceedingly superficial and charm-deprived ensemble film. It doesn't help that most of the characters come across as entitled, navel-gazing twits without a smidgen of depth.
Timothy Knight
The entire cast is likable and good looking -- a combination that turns what could be cheerful, if fluffy, fair into something a bit more resonant. Apr 21, 2006 | Rating: B | Full Review…
The entire cast is likable and good looking -- a combination that turns what could be cheerful, if fluffy, fair into something a bit more resonant.
E! Staff
Elise and Michael (Amy Adams, Adam Garcia) are college sweethearts who are about to walk down the aisle and gather all of their old friends together to join in the celebration. Many of them have pasts all their own and haven't seen each other for years. As they each arrive at the house, joyous reunions quickly turn into awkward meetings that bring up both sweet and painful memories. Elise's old college roommate (Lauren German), who she had a secret lesbian relationship with when she they were in school, show up and try to change Elise's mind about the wedding. Her other friends (Melissa Sagemiller, Mena Suvari) are trying to figure out how to move on in their lives and from the things that have held them back. A dramatic subplot involving Michael's estranged father Jonathan (Xander Berkeley), who's battling addiction attempts to reenter his son's life. The movie contains excessive amounts of sexual immorality, indecent language, nude shots, and youthful hedonism.
Super Reviewer
I just watched this movie, and I really liked it...alot. Sheesh. What's with all the bad reviews I am reading about this movie? Some of the things that were said didn't even sound like the same movie I just saw. Amazing. Well, I thought it was very charming, cute, and enjoyable.
Not a memorable movie. I wouldn't watch it again.
Standing Still is a dialogue-driven character piece about way too many twentysomethings' feelings & questionings to cover up in ninety minutes, but it somehow manages to leave an impression. Indeed, despite the fact that the plot really does go nowhere and we've heard this kind of story a bazillion times, director Matthew Cole Weiss and his excellent cast succeed in breathing life into these characters and giving the movie a natural, truthful ring. Nothing exceptional, but worth seing anyway.
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