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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy. Read full review

  • 100
    Washington Post |

    There's not a false note here, and the entire supporting cast -- is uniformly excellent. Read full review

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Carla Meyer

    Payne's little marvel. Read full review

  • 100
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Pure movie bliss. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The characters are played not by the first actors you would think of casting, but by actors who will prevent you from ever being able to imagine anyone else in their roles. Read full review

  • 100
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    This is a building-block movie: Its stand-out excellence becomes apparent only gradually. Read full review

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Exactly written, directed with a surgeon's precision and transcendently acted, Sideways brings emotional reality to a consistently amusing character comedy, making it something to be cherished like the delicate Santa Ynez Valley wines that are the story's vivid backdrop. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    A beautifully observed, small-scale study of personal foibles, romantic uncertainty and two sides of the sadly predictable male animal. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Like the film itself, the performance (Giamatti's) is deeply controlled, played with restraint and with microscopic attention to detail. Read full review

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