Editing Feeling Minnesota (section)

==Reception==
On review aggregator website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Feeling Minnesota'' has a 14% approval rating based on 21 reviews.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/feeling_minnesota/|title=Feeling Minnesota|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=29 November 2017|archive-date=April 8, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250408171821/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/feeling_minnesota|url-status=live}}</ref> The site's critics consensus reads, "Clumsily derivative, shoddily assembled, and fundamentally miscast, ''Feeling Minnesota'' sets out for romantic comedy and gets irrevocably lost along the way."<ref name=":0" />

Negative reviews said the plot felt too reminiscent of other films, particularly those of "[[Quentin Tarantino]] and the recent cycle of indies about lowlifes, petty criminals and wannabes".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Levy |first=Emanuel |date=1996-09-16 |title=Feeling Minnesota |url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/feeling-minnesota-1200446860/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=October 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020223837/https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/feeling-minnesota-1200446860/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''{{'}}s [[Emanuel Levy]] wrote, "Meant to be an offbeat, darkly comic tale of a triangle of losers desperately clinging to their versions of the American dream, pic comes across as a charmless high-concept [[Independent film|indie]]."<ref name=":1" /> In contrast, [[Siskel & Ebert]] gave the film "two thumbs up."<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Feeling Minnesota |series=[[At the Movies (1986 TV program)|Siskel & Ebert]] |date=September 14, 1996 |season=11 |number=2 |url=https://siskelebert.org/?p=2675 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210211819/http://siskelandebert.org/video/51339GDR768B/Feeling-Minnesota--American-Buffalo--The-Rich-Man8217s-Wife-1996 |archive-date=2015-12-10 |access-date=2015-12-08 |via=siskelebert.org}}</ref> In his review, [[Roger Ebert]] awarded 3 out of 4 stars to the film and wrote, "[Baigelman] creates a whimsical, grungy reality in which whenever the steamy love affair threatens to get boring, it is interrupted by an action scene".<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=1996-09-13 |title=Feeling Minnesota |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/feeling-minnesota-1996 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=RogerEbert.com |archive-date=May 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526123749/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/feeling-minnesota-1996 |url-status=live }}</ref> He praised Diaz's "range and comic ability" and said that the film, along with ''[[A Walk in the Clouds]]'', "establishes [Reeves] as one of the most gifted romantic leads of his generation".<ref name=":2" />