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Despite strong performances and a unique style, The Hottest State is too self-conscious and pretentious to truly succeed.
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If nothing else, Hawke has managed to recreate, with neurological immediacy, the sensation of being harassed by a selfish, clueless ex-lover. Sep 22, 2008 | Full Review…
If nothing else, Hawke has managed to recreate, with neurological immediacy, the sensation of being harassed by a selfish, clueless ex-lover.
Christopher Orr
The movie is crisply shot and obviously heartfelt, but search elsewhere if you want the same honesty Hawke displayed as an actor in 1995's Before Sunrise and its 2004 sequel Before Sunset. Sep 21, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The movie is crisply shot and obviously heartfelt, but search elsewhere if you want the same honesty Hawke displayed as an actor in 1995's Before Sunrise and its 2004 sequel Before Sunset.
John Monaghan
[The two main characters] are in all honesty the least sympathetic and most egregiously boring romantic pair that I've seen onscreen in ages. Sep 21, 2007 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
[The two main characters] are in all honesty the least sympathetic and most egregiously boring romantic pair that I've seen onscreen in ages.
Amy Biancolli
It's a small film, it's a mild recommendation, but I still think it's worth checking out. Sep 18, 2007
It's a small film, it's a mild recommendation, but I still think it's worth checking out.
Richard Roeper
The main point I can extract from Ethan Hawke's The Hottest State is that even a peevish and self-centered young man is capable of feeling great anguish when his girlfriend dumps him. Sep 7, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The main point I can extract from Ethan Hawke's The Hottest State is that even a peevish and self-centered young man is capable of feeling great anguish when his girlfriend dumps him.
Walter V. Addiego
Will the world be different, or their lives irrevocably changed, if they break up? I don't think so. Their tree falls in the forest, and nobody cares except the termites. Sep 7, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Will the world be different, or their lives irrevocably changed, if they break up? I don't think so. Their tree falls in the forest, and nobody cares except the termites.
Roger Ebert
Breaking up is hard to do. So is making a movie about it. Ethan Hawke, in his adaptation of his own novel, doesn't try very hard. Or maybe he tries too hard. Apr 23, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Breaking up is hard to do. So is making a movie about it. Ethan Hawke, in his adaptation of his own novel, doesn't try very hard. Or maybe he tries too hard.
Peter Keough
The film is perfectly fine indie fare, but the plot and the characters seem a little more self-indulgently autobiographical than compelling. Aug 26, 2008 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
The film is perfectly fine indie fare, but the plot and the characters seem a little more self-indulgently autobiographical than compelling.
Heather Huntington
Though there are some nutty and offbeat moments in The Hottest State, these young characters fail to generate any chemistry or 'heated state,' despite their tender years and simmering hormones. Dec 4, 2007 | Full Review…
Though there are some nutty and offbeat moments in The Hottest State, these young characters fail to generate any chemistry or 'heated state,' despite their tender years and simmering hormones.
Prairie Miller
What's apparently deeply personal for Hawke winds up deeply torturous for the audience. Nov 8, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
What's apparently deeply personal for Hawke winds up deeply torturous for the audience.
Geoff Berkshire
Moody relationship drama is best for adults. Oct 22, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Moody relationship drama is best for adults.
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Not the hottest movie. Sep 23, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Not the hottest movie.
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