Sideways Critic Reviews

It's a performance (Giamatti's) so nuanced and so real in its everyday pain that it doesn't stand a chance of winning an Oscar. But it should.Read the full review

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

Payne's little marvel.Read the full review

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 the full review

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

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 the full review

Pure movie bliss.Read the full review

One of the most pleasurable movies of the year.Read the full review

Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy.Read the full review