Entertaining story of fate, alcoholism, and love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

Two movies in one -- lively when people are talking, lame when things are happening.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

You can almost see the strings as the actors are manipulated into position for one more weepy scene.

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2001

Roos has taken a far-fetched and soapy story about tragic fate and redemptive second chances and made it seem not only plausible, but worthy of serious discussion.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This touching, finely wrought bowl of suds is a seamless piece of work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

There's no way out of the excruciating melodrama, and the film withers in its trap.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The script by Don Roos, who also directed, makes good use of the dramatic irony.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A mopey romantic contrivance, with a touch of strained comedy, that maybe is slightly better than last year's Random Hearts but still tedious.

| Jan 1, 2000

So assiduously unsentimental that it comes off as cold and anemic -- and flat.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's deflated by its earnestness.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's just kind of boring.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

More a specialist in sarcasm than in melodrama, Roos fails to scare up a decent complete exchange between anybody.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Something is missing in Bounce, the muted dynamic of which calls forth a perhaps inevitably muted reaction.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

[Paltrow and Affleck] are very attractive people but don't give the impression they've ever lost anything other than their way to an Oscar after-party.

| Jan 1, 2000

A romantic drama of lovely, modest, and all too rare understatement.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 1, 2000

As a director, [Roos] brings a keen eye for character and nuance to his writer-side's lapses.

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

I wanted [Buddy and Abby] to become lovers, which means they sold me on themselves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's a love story, yes, but one whose sweetness is cut by honest performances, a sharply drawn supporting cast and a fairly serious, yet never self-pitying, tone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The most depressing date movie since Random Hearts.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000