To make an exhilarating movie, a filmmaker should play with a genre, but not in the same old ways...

| Feb 27, 2020

Tangy romantic comedy plays sly games.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

[A] warmed-over episode of The Twilight Zone.

| Nov 19, 2008

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 4, 2005

Vincent D'Onofrio . . . makes the stranger-in-a-strange-land thing irresistible.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2003

Once again, director Brad Anderson (of SESSION 9 and NEXT STOP WONDERLAND) has earned the title "maker of chick-flicks that guys can tolerate

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2003

Happy Accidents looks drab and doesn't take very good advantage of its New York locations, but the neurotic intensity and emotional honesty of its two leads more than make up for it.

| Dec 16, 2002

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

A boxed-in [but] entertaining diversion... a small-scale surrealist love story anchored by two fully committed, highly watchable actors.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 3, 2002

Starts off really well, progresses at an enjoyable pace, and falters a little about 2/3 of the way through.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 28, 2002

It's nothing like the sappy, crappy rom-coms we're used to seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 20, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 2, 2001

The story isn't perfectly proportioned ... but it gets quirkier at the points where most romantic comedies go limp.

Full Review | Oct 19, 2001

Tomei and D'Onofrio imbue their roles with the requisite warmth and fragility.

| Oct 17, 2001

This is a tangy romantic comedy that plays sly games of its own with time as the story unfolds.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2001

Gleefully silly fun, with a few core concepts on the nature of time, space, and la-la-la-love thrown in for good measure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2001

Happy Accidents has a sense of humor and a good-natured warmth -- stemming mostly from the appealingly peculiar performances -- that make its shortcomings easier to forgive.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 16, 2001

Its rampant oddness is certain to polarize audiences.

| Oct 12, 2001