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Catch and Release Reviews
Release yourself from boredom by giving it a miss.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 1, 2007
A ghastly sort of Nora Ephron-ish good taste pervades this romcom-tearjerker.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 24, 2007
Juliette Lewis helps break the monotony with a sparkling turn as a ditsy skeleton in the dead fiancé's closet and Kevin Smith spouts a few good zingers as the slacker housemate. Sadly it's not enough to catch and keep hold of your interest.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2007
A film with a fishing metaphor for a title should have come with sharper hooks.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2007
I was pleasantly surprised.
Full Review | Feb 5, 2007
An archetypal date movie with a good heart.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2007
One of those movies where the small pleasures stack up high enough to dwarf the disappointments.
Full Review | Feb 3, 2007
If grief were as easily overcome as it is in Catch and Release, Prozac sales would be in dire trouble.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 2, 2007
A romantic non-comedy.
| Jan 31, 2007
The film suffers from a style that settles for pleasant or touching at the cost of spontaneous or impassioned. Too bad, because Ms. Garner is a genuinely pleasing presence.
| Jan 26, 2007
Were it not for [Kevin] Smith's mildly amusing antics, it might have been necessary to attach a warning to the movie about the dangers of watching it whilst operating heavy machinery.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 26, 2007
There's barely anything new in this well-designed, prettily shot piece of fluff hewn from the realm of tragic-comic romance immemorial.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 26, 2007
Susannah Grant's movie is rough around the edges, but once you get used to the laconic pace, the plot grooves along nicely.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 26, 2007
Screenwriter Susannah Grant makes her directing debut with a romance that wants to respect the mess of love and loss but winds up smoothing all its rough edges with a Hollywood pumice stone.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 26, 2007
However diverting are Garner, Smith and the scenery, the ricochet-romance aspect of Grant's film is, frankly, icky.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 26, 2007
Garner and [writer/director] Grant work hard to push the picture into unexplored territory, and the cringe-worthy moments are easy to overlook.
| Jan 26, 2007
The romantic comedy Catch and Release is refreshing for what it doesn't have. There is no whiny, spoiled golden girl and no baring of claws.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2007
The chick comedy-drama Catch and Release may look bland, but it's not. It's worse. To rise to the level of blandness, it would need to have a few gallons of Tabasco dumped into it.
Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 26, 2007
A film that a talented veteran of romantic comedy would have had trouble pulling off, let alone a screenwriter (Susannah Grant wrote Erin Brockovich) who has never directed a film before.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 26, 2007