With their matching hipster goatees and deadpan cynicism, Affleck and Lee evince the easy rapport of old buds.

There is a lot of frank conversation about the technical aspects of sex between women, but Holden and Banky are written more like sniggering eighth graders than inquisitive adults.

As in Smith's debut film, Clerks, there's something about the scruffy Chasing Amy that breaks through the pretenses of more conventional movies.

...a typically verbose endeavor that grows more and more involving as it progresses...