Starting Out in the Evening Review

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4.5

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  Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

  The movie is carefully modulated to draw us deeper and deeper into the situation, and uses no contrived plot devices to superimpose plot jolts on what is, after all, a story involving four civilized people who are only trying, each in a different way, to find happiness.

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  Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

  Intelligent, involving and conspicuously adult, Starting Out in the Evening is almost shocking in its distinctiveness, its ability to create high drama from an unlikely source.

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