Be Kind Rewind

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New Line Cinema (101 minutes)
and Michel Gondry
Jack Black , Mos Def , Danny Glover , Mia Farrow , Melonie Diaz , Arjay Smith , Paul Dinello , and Marcus Carl Franklin

Rating: PG-13 for some sexual references

Summary: A lovable loser is stuck in a life that's too small for his big dreams. But when he unintentionally erases all the tapes in a video store where his best friend works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store's few loyal customers by re-creating and refilming every movie they decide to rent. (New Line Cinema)

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe:
(88) It's refreshing to see Gondry's moviemaking still possessed by the community spirit he caught a few years ago with "Dave Chappelle's Block Party."

Keith Phipps
The Onion (A.V. Club):
(83) The visual wit, game performances, and overflowing humanity have more than made up for the shortcomings by the time the film finds a final moment that's simultaneously abrupt and magical.

Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
(75) It's as if Gondry lets his performers settle into their parts and feel their way through their stories. It gives the film an ambling pace and a unique chemistry that bubbles with strange and unexpected flavors.

Lou Lumenick
New York Post:
(75) A love letter to the technology and movies of the 1980s as well as celebrating the DIY ethos of the YouTube generation.

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer:
(75) A charmingly off-the-wall little tale. Black doesn't do anything he hasn't done before (in fact, he's already done his remake of King Kong!).

Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald:
(75) At its best when it is at its most freewheeling -- when it tramples past logic, motivation and basic plausibility in its pursuit of a funny, whimsical kind of nonsense.

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