USA Today
"...Philip Seymour Hoffman [is] flawless casting for David Mamet..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 12/18/2000 p.5DPremiere
"...Witty comedy....[Comparable] to the films of Preston Sturges..." 01/01/2001 p.17 Sight and Sound
"...Mamet's plots are tightly coiled affairs..." 02/01/2001 p.52-3 Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] delectably caustic comedy....Macy creates something ticklish and paradoxical: a hero of dishonor..." 01/19/2001 p.59-60 Total Film
"...There's some fine comic playing from the likes of William H. Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker and Alec Baldwin, while Hoffman invests his romantic leading role with a touching dignity..." 03/01/2001 p.91 Los Angeles Times
"...STATE AND MAIN is a quintessentially wised-up insider comedy, ideally cast and filled with sharp writing from start to finish..." 12/22/2000 p.C2 Chicago Sun-Times
"...David Mamet has a playful side that's sometimes overlooked....He delights in using dialogue to provide quick sideways insights into his characters, and in STATE AND MAIN he's directed his first pure comedy..." 12/22/2000 p.36 Uncut
"A merrier Mamet..." 02/01/2005 p.61 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
It's Mamet in a lighthearted mood, playing with dialogue, repeating phrases just because he likes them, and supplying us with a closing line that achieves, I think, a kind of greatness. - Roger Ebert
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