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Bottle Shock is more than the story. It is also about people who love their work, care about it with passion and talk about it with knowledge.
Read the full reviewThis intelligent, affectionate, beautifully acted movie gives crowd-pleasers a good name.
Read the full reviewIt's the kind of feel-good movie whose resolution is evident from the start, being based as it is on a true story. But that doesn't make the journey any less interesting.
Read the full reviewIt's a winner. And not just for oenophiles. Director Randall Miller, who co-wrote the script with his wife Jody Savin, keeps the plot brimming with spirit and wit.
Read the full reviewLow budget, self-distributed, awkwardly charming, it's the kind of midrange Hollywood entertainment that's supposed to be extinct in this modern age. It makes you want to support your local vintner and your local moviemaker.
Read the full reviewWhatta movie: booze, unhappy French people, Alan Rickman and really cool pickup trucks.
Read the full reviewWine lovers won't just sip but guzzle a lot of this down, and the same effect that sun-dappled days and sex in California had on "Sideways" operates here.
Read the full reviewSo why did I feel such affection for this scruffy, hokey little movie? Maybe it's the same logic that applies to wine-drinking itself: Sure, a great claret would be ideal, but an OK rosé is better than washing down your dinner with water.
Read the full reviewTrouble is, it's too rambling and digressive to feel focused, yet too calculating to feel as observational and natural as a good Altman flick.
Read the full reviewThe soul of the grape, that thing that elevates a wine to greatness, proves here as elusive on screen as in the bottle.
Read the full reviewBottle Shock is unable to figure out what kind of movie it wants to be, and flops around between madcap comedy and rousing drama. To borrow a wine-snob term of art, it lacks structure.
Read the full reviewThis schlocky period piece doesn't do the pioneering Northern Californians justice. The script is overwritten to the point of parody.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 56
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