David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jan 14, 2023 3/4

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

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Cathay Che The Advocate Apr 5, 2022

Chasing Amy is just like my kid brother -- alternately adorable and exasperating and full of cocky witticisms about life with very little experience to back them up.

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Mark J. Huisman The Advocate Apr 5, 2022

With some wonderful jabs at gender and racial stereotypes, Chasing Amy eschews political correctness to explore sexual identity with more thoughtfulness than we’ve seen before, at least from a filmmaker who happens to be a 26-year-old straight guy.

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Michael Atkinson Spin Oct 25, 2019

What's best about Chasing Amy is that it matters in a way Smith's other films don't -- it throbs with real feelings and frustrated inadequacy.

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PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Nov 5, 2018 2/5

A reductive juncture in Smith's career compared to his more situationally-specific and fine-tuned predecessors, Clerks and Mallrats.

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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 7, 2014 3.5/4

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

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Dan Webster Spokesman-Review (Washington) Feb 7, 2014 3/4

Slowly, like a latent teen pulled against his will into adulthood, Kevin Smith is growing up. But he's not growing quietly.

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Paul Tatara CNN.com Feb 7, 2014

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.

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Gary Thompson Philadelphia Daily News Feb 7, 2014 2/4

The movie reinforces his gift for dialogue, but his ability to handle actors, compose scenes or keep track of his own story is negligible.

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Roger Hurlburt South Florida Sun-Sentinel Feb 7, 2014

Chasing Amy often is convulsively funny.

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Jo Berry Radio Times Feb 7, 2014 4/5

[A] cool, hilarious and sexy romantic comedy.

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Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel Feb 7, 2014

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

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John Hartl Seattle Times Feb 7, 2014 3/4

Even when its young, uncertain characters appear to be in danger of talking (and whining) themselves to death, there's something genuine and charmingly naive about their attempts to make sense of their feelings.

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David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor Feb 7, 2014 2/4

Although [Smith's] dialogue is often witty, he still relies on blunt sexual humor to get his point across.

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Stephen Hunter Baltimore Sun Feb 7, 2014 3/4

Affleck and Lee have a great comic thing going on.

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Dave Kehr New York Daily News Feb 7, 2014 3/4

Chasing Amy is not yet a mature work Smith still needs a style to go with his sensibility but its yearning for maturity is palpable and touching.

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Mark Caro Chicago Tribune Feb 7, 2014 3.5/4

The performances are universally strong. The goateed Affleck makes for a particularly sympathetic protagonist; he has the looks and confidence of a lady-killer, but nagging befuddlement and vulnerability are rarely far from the surface.

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Carly Kocurek Common Sense Media Jan 1, 2011 2/5

Dated romantic comedy wrong for all kids.

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Radheyan Simonpillai AskMen.com Nov 4, 2010 89/100

The third installment of Kevin Smith's New Jersey Trilogy is also the only Kevin Smith movie that's worth any serious attention.

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Bill Gibron PopMatters Nov 21, 2009 4.5/5

Like a raw nerve tweaked over and over again by emotions both radiant and revealing, Chasing Amy is as close to a masterpiece as Smith has ever created.

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