Sideways Critic Reviews
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Based upon 16 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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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
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
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 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
It's likely that 2004 won't offer a better movie about a mid-life crisis.Read the full review
Pure movie bliss.Read the full review
Payne's little marvel.Read the full review
A warm, ingratiating, and fitfully hilarious epicurean road movie with a steady ache-an ache like a red-wine hangover.Read the full review
Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy.Read the full review
Like the film itself, the performance (Giamatti's) is deeply controlled, played with restraint and with microscopic attention to detail.Read the full review
