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50
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46
Critics' score based on 11 reviews.
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Its modesty is what makes its very real virtues -- a tart, literate script, an adroit balance of humor and pathos, a memorable onscreen collaboration between star-scribe Scott Caan and his father James -- so cumulatively impressive.Full Review

Justin Chang
Variety

At the risk that giving Scott Caan a bad review will cause him to fall in love with me, I must note the irony in a film that seeks to critique superficiality, only to fall back on the old "dead fiances deepen dipshits" trick.Full Review

Village Voice

The end is swollen with macho brooding before the hero finds the inner strength to accept the advances of another incredible dish.Full Review

J.R. Jones
Chicago Reader

What's lacking is a little more depth. This is a movie that covers a lot of distance in only 87 minutes.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

In a certain kind of indie movie, the only thing sweeter than a bad boy transformed is slow, sad tragedy. Mercy has both, which isn't good.Full Review

Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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