...a progressively endearing effort that boasts several superb performances and a brisk, downright fun sensibility.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 8, 2008

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 23, 2006

The Swiss-quartz comic timing of the film's ensemble cast makes its neurotic characters more compelling than your average cinematic slackers.

| Apr 25, 2006

An independent, dialogue-heavy film that from the looks of it was made more with fun and passion than money.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2006

This is a hit and miss romantic comedy with a few solid laughs and some pretty smart dialogue.

Full Review | Apr 24, 2006

I continue to enjoy Van Der Beek's willingness to play obnoxiously against type -- it turns out as a big-headed hero, he's boring, but as a big-headed ***, he's a funny guy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

The efforts of an attractive and accomplished cast ensure that director Matthew Cole Weiss' feature debut is neither as dull nor as insufferably smug as it could easily have been.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2006

There's just simply not one iota of originality to this exceedingly superficial and charm-deprived ensemble film. It doesn't help that most of the characters come across as entitled, navel-gazing twits without a smidgen of depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

The aptly named Standing Still, about postcollegiate 20-somethings, has the dramatic momentum of a daisy-picking toddler.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 21, 2006

Relentlessly shallow.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 21, 2006

A movie as inert as its title.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Standing Still wants to be an honest, earnest look at the difficulties of growing up and moving on, but it remains stuck in such a fantasy-laden milieu that the characters never feel particularly real, and their problems seem phony and arbitrary.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 21, 2006

Despite the best efforts of its energetic young ensemble, this soft focus romantic comedy cries out for a sharper edge.

Full Review | Apr 21, 2006

The entire cast is likable and good looking -- a combination that turns what could be cheerful, if fluffy, fair into something a bit more resonant.

| Original Score: B | Apr 21, 2006

If The Big Chill and American Wedding had a love child, it might look something like Standing Still.

| Original Score: C | Apr 21, 2006

The script (by Matthew Perniciaro and Timm Sharp) is trite, and the direction so flat that every scene looks like it was shot in a broom closet, but the bright young cast makes things more bearable than they should be.

| Apr 20, 2006

Surfing the crowd in Altman-lite style, pic skims the surface entertainingly but goes limp in its stabs at seriousness.

| Apr 18, 2006

A little gem of a movie - characters you just don't want to leave. Van Der Beek is good.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 29, 2005

An ill-defined mishmash of cliches, with poorly sketched characters and leaden dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2005

There's enough good humor to mask the pain and sometimes that's as telling a statement as you can make about young people making the transition to young adults.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2005