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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★½ 4

  A: "I love you."

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  B: "I love you too."

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  A: *sighs in frustration*

  That truly has to be one of my
  favorite "love you" exchanges in any film.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½

  Most Bujalski's films operate under the idea of set up a millieu and cartography multiple ways people avoiding colliding while this one inverts such idea and is all about doing the same so people can just bump off into each other. Which is good because he was getting stale and rather oppressive in his last two films. This seems to be getting a lot of condencending positive reviews that single out its supposedly conventional qualities, which is weird because despite been in essence a rather old school romantic comedy (it is literally about moving pieces around so two people can say "I love you"), Results relationship towards genre are so old fashionable to be unrecognizable in current multiplexes. Far from…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 5

  Bujalski makes a strange and strangely satisfying Duplass movie. Smulders, Pearce and Corrigan are heroic.

  i will probably not think of this movie ever again, especially if i keep calling it RITUALS.

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  Review by shookone ★★½

  strange Guy Pearce channeling Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading flick

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  Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★ 2

  There are audience pleasing movies and then there are Peter pleasing movies. This is the latter (the USC audience was not into this as much as I was, at least), and much closer to Computer Chess in the way Bujalski treats psychology as a series of programmed gestures and responses, here based on the social milieu of the exercise world. I think that final iPod montage near the end says a lot about how Bujalski understands these people—literally trapped in their own head, so the constant cutting in both visual and then aural space creates such disjunctive and revealing insights into his characters. More here in the latest podcast.

  Minor Spoilers: I laughed my ass off at the very sly meta-joke near the end when the non-diagetic sound suddenly becomes diagetic in another space, and the characters now on screen seem utterly bored. Dude has a sense of humor about his own reputation.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★½

  Did a lot less for me than COMPUTER CHESS. That said, Kevin Corrigan's hair is one of the most beautiful pieces of cinematic art of 2015.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★

  One of the better mainstream American movies of the 10s because it is the rare one that knows how to use it genre framework to connect it to raw feeling. Also pretty much a movie about Bujalski own working methods which makes it extra funny that it was underrated at the time for its conventional qualities.

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  Review by Scott Tobias ★★★★

  Second viewing, slight upgrade. Paired with the superior Support the Girls, this looks like a healthier companion than it did at the time, both grounded in humble suburban gigs and the funny low-key particulars of human behavior. Bujalski really has found a way to scale up mumblecore without losing his soul in the process.

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  Review by sydney ★★★½

  FEAR
  EXCUSES
  SURRENDER

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  Review by Jordan Smith 4

  Sneakily smart, loose, spunky hangout/workplace romcom with an understanding of how people keep busy to stave off loneliness.

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  Review by Vadim Rizov ★★★½

  "I’ve been making movies for 15 years. I love those movies. I’m so, so grateful that I got to do them. And frankly, if I get the opportunity again in life, I would love to scurry back to making strange and obscure things. I mean, Results may well be strange and obscure, but it’s my best effort to make something that can exist in the marketplace. Certainly making movies that I’d spend three or four years on and earn four figures for was so rewarding in so many ways, but there were some compelling reasons to see what it would be like to not do it that way."

  This is my fourth (!) interview with Bujalski. I'm getting better at it. Lot of Austin chat in there if that's an incentive. (There's also a review I wrote after second viewing in the next Sight & Sound).

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  Review by Matt ★★★

  I'll watch most things for Kevin Corrigan playing his usual sardonic self, even a weirdly overlong romcom where the focus on him being deliriously entertaining is all too often interrupted by a fairly standard sort-of love triangle. Weights are lifted, hot people problems are had and Cobie smoulders in her gym gear.