Critic Reviews
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Lael Loewenstein, Variety
Carroll's characters spend so much time talking, albeit intelligently, that the connections they make seem peculiarly synthetic.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
This charming romantic comedy with a Los Angeles setting cuts between seemingly unconnected miniplots the way some Robert Altman movies do.
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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
If Playing by Heart is the kind of film that used to be known as a "woman's picture," it certainly provides more emotional nourishment than most other mainstream movies generate these days.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
For all its artificiality, Playing by Heart percolates with an earnest charm.
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Charles Taylor, Salon.com
As a young scenemaker who keeps landing in one bad relationship after another, Jolie doesn't exactly avoid the pitfalls of the material she's given. But her performance is flabbergasting.
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Gillian Andersonas Meredith -
Angelina Jolieas Joan -
Madeleine Stoweas Gracie
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