| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Succeeds as an amusing critique rather than an empty-headed endorsement of its protagonists' behaviour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2003

With its talky and theatricalized depiction of cruelties mutually inflicted by financially comfortable good-looking young white people on each other, XX/XY at times recalls a slightly more full-blooded Neil LaBute movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2003

Rarely does a fine movie like this have so awkward a title.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2003

Ruffalo continues to be one of the most intriguing actors of his generation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 28, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 25, 2003

XX/XY expresses and explores this universal yearning without becoming stuck in it. In this and many other respects, few movies are so mature and satisfying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2003

It never addresses the underlying issue on which those relationships hinge: Is Coles still in love with Sam, or is he just in love with what she represents.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2003

Though the chemistry's a little off in XX/XY, Ruffalo and Wright make it a journey worth taking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 2, 2003

A sexy, emotionally true portrait of a handful of people wrestling with their impulses and trying to find their way to happiness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2003

Offers little to love, despise or even care about.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | May 2, 2003

Although the script, by Chick (a Sarah Lawrence alumnus), can be painfully old hat, this little indie's cast goes a long way toward making the story interesting, even compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2003

A movie that is not just humorless but pointless, or, to be generous, painfully obvious.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 1, 2003

If this were a cocktail party, you'd be back home with a good book already.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 25, 2003

You can make a movie in which all the characters are unsympathetic, but this trio is uninteresting, to boot.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2003

The film has a rare insight into the mechanism by which some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Each moment feels real, but the movie wears you out in some way.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2003

Succeeds in generating emotional tension, even though it's lacking in pressure.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 24, 2003

While XX/XY contains little sexual whimsy, its crisscross of carnality and broken hearts remains compelling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2003

An ongoing problem ... is the complete lack of chemistry between the leads.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 22, 2003