Outstanding.

Rating: 9/10 (19 April 2005)

Genuinely excellent. It's entirely deserving of every whisper of delirious praise heaped upon it. Far surpassed my expectations.
Honestly, I liked Braff from Scrubs, but I couldn't have imagined him to be this damn good at everything. The direction, performances and writing: all so nearly perfect. The end is overwritten, admittedly, but on top of the rest of the film, it doesn't matter at all. People keep comparing it to Lost in Translation - those people are wrong. It's a hundred million times better, and I loved Lost in Translation. And to top it all, Zach Braff has the finest music taste on the planet.
I'm a freshly converted Braff fangirl, and I hope he makes many, many more movies. And compilation tapes. And maybe writes a book. And takes up painting. And modern dance. It'd all be good.