Sideways Critic Reviews

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

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

It's likely that 2004 won't offer a better movie about a mid-life crisis.Read the full review

Sideways makes you glad about America, about movies, about life.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

Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy.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

Like the film itself, the performance (Giamatti's) is deeply controlled, played with restraint and with microscopic attention to detail.Read the full review