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Cashback Review

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2.0

Dave White Profile

… puddle-deep emotional jabbering … Read full review

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  • 3.0
    54

    out of 100

    Metascore®
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  • 25

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

    Director Sean Ellis has a lovely eye, but he's set the film in his blind spot. Not only can't he distinguish between art and porn, savoring and wallowing, universal truths and exhausted clichs -- he doesn't even seem interested in these distinctions.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    Cashback suggests a "Malcolm in the Middle" episode directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The hero's pained, hilarious childhood flashbacks deserve a much better movie.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    The movie is too cute by half, made close to unbearable whenever Ben's narration spews glib pseudo-profundities about memory and temporal stillness. But the flaky humor of wage slaves serial-killing time is good, rude fun.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The movie is lightweight, as it should be.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

    Writer-director Sean Ellis more-or-less successfully expands his Academy Award-nominated 18-minute short to full length, showcasing his talented young cast to good effect.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Justin Chang

    Slickly charming, genteelly erotic and directed with supreme polish, Cashback is a conventional romantic comedy that plays unconventional games with time and memory.

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5

Simply Exhilarating by Dolfantye
Cashback is simply one of a kind. Any person who rates this film anything but "Must Go!" is simply looking at the movie in the wrong perspective. This is not your typical movie. It's different, completely different. You need a different perspective to watch this movie. You must think out of the box when watching this movie. This movie will really make you think in ways you never thought, it will also inspire you!

3

by tadpole_c1984

5

Finding love by jamin70
Moments into Cashback, you find yourself staring into Emilia Fox's screaming face. A breakup. Getting a bearing on the movie's direction at this point is difficult, but it goes far beyond a typical lost love, find love break-up story. Beautiful flashbacks exist throughout the movie, returning to a childhood full of experiences in which many can relate. The idea of sex, love, and art frequent the movie. When taking refuge from restless nights at a grocery, Biggerstaff finds that he has the ability to stop time. Time, the enemy of the night. Using his skill, he takes a path to enlightenment and love, with a group of hilarious friends.

2

by newyorkbadass

3

by universeeye

5

Lots of explicit full frontal female nudity by bil45
If you like very explicity female nudity, the movie is for you, because there's a ton of it (I'm talking no hair down there kind of nudity). If you don't like that sort of thing, you should stay away. I don't mean to be crude, it's just good info to have when deciding whether or not you want to go see this.

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