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The movie is pricelessly comic -- the Harvey/Joyce scenes catalog the couple's neuroses with glee -- but it just as often reaches for something richer. Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Produced by HBO but too good not to play theaters, this soon-to-be minor classic is the best movie about society's untrendiest since "Ghost World" exactly two years ago.Full Review

Mike Clark
USA Today

This film is delightful in the way it finds its own way to tell its own story. There was no model to draw on, but Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who wrote and directed it, have made a great film by trusting to Pekar's artistic credo.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

It's a humane and witty treatment of an average life that, incidentally, speaks to the worth and inherent drama of average lives.Full Review

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

Superbly conceived anti-biopic.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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