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

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

| Oct 5, 2007

It leaves you wishing the oddball couple well.

| Sep 25, 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

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

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

A film that subjects us to one of the more irritating and unlikable leading men in recent romantic comedy history.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2007

An ordinary boy-gets-girl movie, and not a particularly interesting one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2007

You can see where all this is going -- author meets illustrator, crazy person meets sane person, withholding person meets giving person -- but there isn't one interesting thing about the journey.

| Aug 24, 2007

A pleasingly weird, dryly funny little indie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

This might work if there were chemistry between the stars, but eccentric Crudup and girl-next-door Moore may be the worst casting match of the year.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007

What began as an oddball study of a jagged male friendship devolves into clich and compromise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2007

Truly tender, truly funny...a pessimistic, unrelenting take on love that is still a date movie for anyone who wants to enjoy a romantic comedy without feeling guilty about it.

| Aug 24, 2007

Dedication is peppered with drolly passive-aggressive supporting characters and actors equipped to do them full justice.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 23, 2007

An unoriginal romantic comedy that vainly attempts to mask its conventionality with all manner of eccentricities.

| Aug 23, 2007