Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer

Sweetest, funniest, most humane movie I've seen all year.

Newsweek by David Ansen

In Sideways, Payne has created four of the most lived-in, indelible characters in recent American movies. This deliciously bittersweet movie makes magic out of the quotidian.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Jack and Miles are male archetypes, as well as the two most fully realized comic creations in recent American movies.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Good comedies are rare, but rarer still are those that conflate laughter with intimacy.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Like the film itself, the performance (Giamatti's) is deeply controlled, played with restraint and with microscopic attention to detail.

The New Yorker by David Denby

In this role Giamatti gives his bravest, most generously humane performance yet. Women may be repelled, but men will know this man, because, at one time or another, many of us have been this man.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

A beautifully observed, small-scale study of personal foibles, romantic uncertainty and two sides of the sadly predictable male animal.

Salon by Charles Taylor

Alexander Payne's new movie, Sideways, makes you feel like you're trapped at dinner with a wiseass who's trying to convince you what a sensitive guy he is.