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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- It’s a wonderfully spritzy dialogue-driven work, full of oomph and chutzpah.
- 80EmpireEmpireCroghan accurately illustrates the frustrations of a charismatic bunch of characters who are frank, funny and full of life.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAn exuberant and supremely unselfconscious first film about five Melbourne college students and the various crises that befall them during one momentous day. The movie is in the best sense of the word artless (there's not an hommage insight), and its occasional missteps -- like a ham-fisted parody of partisan film students -- do little to undermine its charms.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinSan Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinIt looks like a low-budget film, but in this case that just adds to the charm. Croghan's only false move was to divide her film into segments, each one introduced by a quote from a famous writer.
- 70Time OutTime OutMade on a shoestring by a bunch of film school graduates (director and co-writer Croghan was 23 at the time), this sweet, brisk campus comedy has a refreshingly current feel. For once, you believe the actors are the age they're playing. The romantic musical chairs are routine, but Croghan has a light touch, and a shrewd eye for the rules of attraction. It's too unassuming to be brattily obnoxious.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere's a lot of potential charm here, but the director, Emma-Kate Croghan, is so distracted by stylistic quirks that the characters are forever being upstaged by the shots they're in.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumA slight romantic comedy about five winsome Australian university students who fret and joke about their romantic woes when not talking about movies and cinematic theories. Each has a charming quirk — one (Frances O’Connor) is a cute lesbian, another (Alice Garner) is writing a thesis on Doris Day — but none is deeper than a bag of Reese’s Pieces.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoThroughout, Croghan knows where she wants to go, but has no fresh ideas for getting there. The characters are reasonably appealing, but the jokes are mostly weak.
- 50Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonAt it’s core, it’s just another youth-culture flick about the search for love. It’s also a mediocre bid to join the shoestring pantheon of such filmic self-starters as Spike Lee (She’s Gotta Have It) and Kevin Smith (Clerks).