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Just Looking
45
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75
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
The characters are easy to overplay, but the ensemble keeps its feet on the ground.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A coming-of-age film that has the jaunty mood and egg-cream flavor of a Philip Roth memoir.
70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Variety
Dennis Harvey
It goes down as easy as a cherry Coke.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
The pacing is lumpy, the acting's all over the map.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
Pleasant, ultimately sweet but never quite inspired.
50
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
There are enough grace notes and gentle surprises strewn along this well-trod path to make Just Looking just good enough to justify Alexander's career move.
50
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
It's merely a by-the-numbers coming-of-age film
40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Fails to create a seamless and believable web of measured performances and period color.
40
TV Guide Magazine
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide Magazine
Maitland McDonagh
Contains some nicely observed moments, but they're buried in an unrepentantly sitcomy script.
10
L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
This sort of nostalgia-drenched, sexual-coming-of-age saga has been done to death.
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