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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Once the movie throws in a jolting, late-in- the-game plot twist that could have been borrowed from City of Angels, it never regains its balance. Read more
Jack Mathews, Los Angeles Times: Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Ultimately, Sliding Doors becomes a victim of its own cleverness, shutting down all that early promise. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The script is shrewd and inventive, combining wit, romance, and intelligent melodrama into a crowd-pleasing whole. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Gwyneth Paltrow is engaging as the two Helens, and I have no complaints about her performance. Pity about the screenplay. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's not so much the tale itself as the slippery interplay between characters that makes Sliding Doors enjoyable. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Give the movie credit for being a different sort of romantic comedy, but still one has to regret the failure of imagination. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Unduly smug about its flashy conceit and otherwise utterly empty, the film plays like lobotomized Kieslowski, less Blind Chance than dumb luck. Read more