Wow… all those Oscar nominations and other awards and no love for the one thing that truly deserves recognition. You know, I love Johnny Depp as much as a teenaged girl, but this year, Paul Giamatti really should be in his spot. His performance here is my favourite from the whole year, wrenching my heart out with a mere close-up, time after time.

Looking past the wine tasting, which is obviously quite omnipresent in this movie, and is just a personal prejudice (so bad that I probably couldn’t listen to a person talk like Paul Giamatti talks about wine in this movie for more than a few minutes without wanting to punch them in the face, lol), I can really see how some people have fallen in love with Sideways. It’s an incredibly honest, no nonsense, funny, sad, and true buddy movie. I still feel a little like it’s this year’s Lost in Translation, though.

When the movie’s funny, it’s truly, truly laugh out loud funny; and when it’s sad, it’s bring out the anti-depressants sad; but these moments are fleetingly dispersed in a lot of slow and repetitive dinner and date type chit-chat scenes which bring the movie down for me.

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