| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2001

| Original Score: C- | Sep 15, 2000

Happily for all, director Bruce Paltrow approaches the sing-along world of karaoke with an affectionate but mildly satiric eye.

| Jan 1, 2000

Its fundamental error is that it tries to squeeze bittersweet heartbreak and goofy social satire into the same story. Just when the movie gets the rhythm, it steps on its own feet.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The press notes say the director spent five years developing Duets. He should have developed it more.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A conceptual train wreck.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The talented cast doesn't stand much of a chance in this rambling, pointless narrative, reeling off such howlers as: 'I've waited all my life to spend time with you.'

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Duets will be most appreciated by music buffs. The actual karaoke scenes attain the bounce that's missing from the rest of the film.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Marquee value of an Academy Award-winning star lifted it up to the big screen -- a step higher than it should have gone.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Watching Duets, you sense the small-screen calculations in John Byrum's script.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Byrum's lackluster, ambling script and Bruce Paltrow's unimaginative reading of it routinely stand at cross-purposes with a first-class cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Disjointed, contrived and about as plausible as a karaoke singer with a scholarship to Juilliard.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

To their credit, [Byrum and Paltrow] attempted to make a movie of ideas. Alas, many of the ideas are bad. Not to mention bigoted.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

OK, it got to me.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Duets is miserable as it crawls for two eternal hours toward being 'life-affirming.' Should any movie about karaoke be this relentlessly sour?

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It sometimes sings off-key, but at least it sings proud.

| Jan 1, 2000

Substitute 'bland' for 'blonde' and you've got a pretty good description of [Paltrow's] movie.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jan 1, 2000

In addition to its other shortcomings, Duets is awfully slow in getting going.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000