| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Dedication's problem isn't its idealized conception of love but the thoroughly unconvincing way in which it is realized.

| Original Score: C | Feb 12, 2008

That's what it takes to make it through this self-consciously dark romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2007

It restores one's faith in Mandy Moore's film career.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2007

Theroux shoots and edits creatively, and elicits good performances, so here's hoping he gets another crack behind the camera with a more cohesive and consistent script.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 5, 2007

Actor Justin Theroux makes an impressive directorial debut, aided by David Bromberg's mordantly funny dialogue.

| Oct 5, 2007

Dedication is a loopy, semi-romantic comedy better served had it been made by Hal Hartley and released during the autumn of 1994.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 4, 2007

It leaves you wishing the oddball couple well.

| Sep 25, 2007

Will help Moore get additional notice within the industry, from writers, directors and other creative types who pay attention.

| Sep 24, 2007

Stridently annoying.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 24, 2007

[Director Theroux] has a tendency to overplay things, with self-consciously arty direction and an intrusive soundtrack.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2007

Directed by actor Justin Theroux with a surprisingly saccharine hand, the film is neither believable nor novel.

| Original Score: C | Sep 21, 2007

Billy Crudup and Mandy Moore are immensely likable. We like them so much we regret having to see them in this story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2007

Theroux brings none of the electric surprise or intensity of his acting to bear on the movie. He seems unhappy with the assignment.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 21, 2007

A well-acted comedy-drama that may feature the most disagreeable gang of characters to populate any movie this year. Too bad they're not quite as much fun to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2007

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 21, 2007

Crudup delivers a bracing, uncompromising performance, but it's unmistakably a solo turn in a romantic comedy that's supposed to be about the blurring of egos and the fusing of two idiosyncratic voices into a single harmonious duet.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 20, 2007

Crudup exhibits admirable restraint. The story would be more compelling, however, had we not seen the same thing before in As Good as It Gets.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 20, 2007

Dedication is engaging for a while, but flits from style to style, from dark to loopy comedy, only to settle on gooey romance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2007

Gratingly hip, joyless, small-budget Dedication is just another example of what New Yorker magazine recently identified as the 'slacker-striver' trope in today's romances.

| Sep 20, 2007