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Scott Schueller, Chicago Tribune: Ethan Hawke's film, based on the novel he wrote a decade ago, should come with a warning that it may cause bruising from heavy-handed dialogue. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: As a director Ethan Hawke has learned a great deal from his mentor, Richard Linklater. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Buy the CD and skip the movie. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: [The two main characters] are in all honesty the least sympathetic and most egregiously boring romantic pair that I've seen onscreen in ages. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: At times this indie is as repetitive and self-indulgent as its protagonist, but it captures a bit of the madness of being unrequitedly in love. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: If the words ''based on a semiautobiographical first novel'' don't send chills up your spine, how about ''adapted for the screen and directed by the author''? Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The movie is crisply shot and obviously heartfelt, but search elsewhere if you want the same honesty Hawke displayed as an actor in 1995's Before Sunrise and its 2004 sequel Before Sunset. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Hawke does some nice things with the camera -- the film has style -- but what it doesn't have is the essential thing you need in a drama. Namely, drama. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The film is best appreciated as a meditation on celebrity psychology. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Hawke, though, who is very good as the young man's estranged father, had best stick to what he does best. Read more
Linda Stasi, New York Post: As a bonus it's got the best soundtrack of any movie this year. Hawke, who is the first cousin once removed of Tennesee Williams, proves himself to have a good eye for the small world of big love. Read more
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: [Director] Hawke's sincerity - especially in his terrific new film, The Hottest State -- is also his saving grace. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Hawke has made this movie his way and the result is a story that is by turns romantic and disquieting. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Will the world be different, or their lives irrevocably changed, if they break up? I don't think so. Their tree falls in the forest, and nobody cares except the termites. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: The main point I can extract from Ethan Hawke's The Hottest State is that even a peevish and self-centered young man is capable of feeling great anguish when his girlfriend dumps him. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: If nothing else, Hawke has managed to recreate, with neurological immediacy, the sensation of being harassed by a selfish, clueless ex-lover. Read more
Leslie Felperin, Variety: The Hottest State takes a good deal of time to heat up and fails to generate much more than a lukewarm empathy for its petulant main characters. Read more
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Hawke quite capably taps into the bittersweet complexities of young, love-struck idiocy. Read more