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called the film "smartly sexy," a "brightly observed narrative," and "a frolic free of any judgments ... marked by
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rated it three out of four stars, calling it "sweet, likable and consistently engaging, if so insubstantial that it's always on the verge of blowing away" and adding, "Townsend pulls off the unenviable job of making Adam a
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