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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a perfect, deadpan, impishly optimistic fairy tale about French tolerance from the great Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki." (Read the full review...) 67 words, 11/04/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...as lovable as a silent comedy, which it could have been.... There is nothing cynical or cheap about it, it tells a good story with clear eyes and a level gaze, and it just plain makes you feel good." (Read the full review...) 628 words, 11/04/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "It may be conservative in its respect for older creative traditions, and also in its affection for the sturdy values of community, but it is also unapologetically radical in its antiauthoritarian spirit." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 10/21/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "No one looks at the world quite like Aki Kaurismäki, and his deadpan sentimentality is worth discovery. This is a good place to start." (Read the full review...) 134 words, 10/21/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "A droll ode to the downtrodden and dispossessed... joins Aki Kaurismäki's unmistakable stylistic flourishes with two things that are relatively new to his repertory: an overt social conscience and a sweet-natured fairy tale sensibility." (Read the full review...) 687 words, 10/21/11 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Kaurismaki, whose charming movies include 'Leningrad Cowboys Go America' and 'The Match Factory Girl,' is able to turn scenes of people staring into space into high art. Who needs dialogue when expressionless faces will do?" (Read the full review...) 260 words, 10/21/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...extols the virtues of community, even though the director has a penchant for isolating people, often breaking the action down to hands shining shoes, or barflies staring, staring, standing still." (Read the full review...) 627 words, 11/04/11 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Kaurismaki's alchemical mix of wit, irony and melodrama has seldom been more affecting.... one of the year's more human and subtly humorous films." (Read the full review...) 345 words, 10/28/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...as lovable as a silent comedy, which it could have been.... There is nothing cynical or cheap about it, it tells a good story with clear eyes and a level gaze, and it just plain makes you feel good." (Read the full review...) 628 words, 11/04/11 J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...the ending is contrived to give the audience exactly what it wants, without irony -- and, providing minds are engaged along with feelings, they'll know it.... utopian precisely because it shows everything as it is not." (Read the full review...) 380 words, 10/19/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "As good as the cast is, and it's very good, it's the deceptively passive young Blondin Miguel who anchors the film, keeping it from floating away on a cloud of cheerful absurdity." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 11/04/11 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Most of all, there's empathy, which makes 'Le Havre' not just a generous film, but one that's very extremely good." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 11/04/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...an unabashed fairy tale and it doesn't ooze irony like the Finnish director's other movies. But it expertly evokes its titular location and has many quiet pleasures, chief among them its deft performances." (Read the full review...) 124 words, 11/03/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...[a] story of timely issues and timeless values.... one of the finest films of the year, a comedy of unusual compassion and generosity that can get away with its most fanciful contrivances because its style is so simple and its tone so gentle and forgiving." (Read the full review...) 366 words, 12/09/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "If the bummers and ambiguity of some of this season's movies are getting you down - or, hey, just the bummers and ambiguities of life - make your way to 'Le Havre.' You won't be sorry." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 11/25/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "Finland's master of deadpan irony, Aki Kaurismäki, goes full-on humanist in this gentle fable on the theme of trust." (Read the full review...) 250 words, 12/09/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a small bit of movie magic, a story that plays more as a fable even as it deals with something as topical as immigration.... What Kaurismaki is doing here is showing us magic -- the magic of film and its ability to transport us..." (Read the full review...) 570 words, 11/11/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Director Aki Kaurismäki manages the seemingly impossible task of making a farce about farces. In other words, this is a very good movie in quotation marks and a very good movie." (Read the full review...) 762 words, 11/11/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "The first time you see one of Aki Kaurismäki's movies, it might take you a half hour to figure out that he's really joking around. The Finnish director's sense of humor is dry and dark as pitch..." (Read the full review...) 310 words, 11/11/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A sweet story of tolerance, casually dressed in film-noir trappings..." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 11/11/11 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...uses Kaurismäki's dry wit to tell a tale that's more earnest and political than anything he's done, but which retains the skewed Scandinavian worldview we've come to expect." (Read the full review...) 315 words, 01/27/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a passing fancy of a film, but it passes quite nicely indeed." (Read the full review...) 359 words, 01/13/12
J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...the ending is contrived to give the audience exactly what it wants, without irony -- and, providing minds are engaged along with feelings, they'll know it.... utopian precisely because it shows everything as it is not." (Read the full review...) 380 words, 10/19/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "Few filmmakers practice minimalism as effectively as Aki Kaurismäki. Every detail in the frame and every movement by a character or the camera serve a specific purpose, usually poignantly tragic, absurdly comic, and often both." (Read the full review...) 156 words, 11/10/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "Minor pleasures abound, but director Aki Kauismäki's vision isn't deep enough to survive so many variations." (Read the full review...) 219 words, 09/09/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a wry mini-treatise on the necessity of being kind and having guts.... steps at first tentatively then boldly toward a blissfully happy ending that still manages to be true to director Aki Kaurismäki's ornery humanist spirit..." (Read the full review...) 816 words, 10/20/11 Phil Coldiron, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...what can a miracle that seems like the most common thing in the world say to us? No more or less than this: that there's still a chance.... director Aki Kaurismäki's style throughout remains, as ever, resolutely direct in its clean lines and saturated color." (Read the full review...) 863 words, 10/02/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...an unabashed fairy tale and it doesn't ooze irony like the Finnish director's other movies. But it expertly evokes its titular location and has many quiet pleasures, chief among them its deft performances." (Read the full review...) 124 words, 11/03/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "...a subversively funny but tacitly serious drama about immigrant tides in contemporary Europe.... a variant of the notion that it takes a village to raise a child..." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 10/21/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "It may be conservative in its respect for older creative traditions, and also in its affection for the sturdy values of community, but it is also unapologetically radical in its antiauthoritarian spirit." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 10/21/11 Mark Jenkins, NPR: VERY GOOD "A contemporary fable set in a place constructed from blocks of French cinematic history.... as deadpan and downbeat as any of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's earlier efforts, yet slouches its way to not one but two fairy-tale endings." (Read the full review...) 586 words, 10/20/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "A droll ode to the downtrodden and dispossessed... joins Aki Kaurismäki's unmistakable stylistic flourishes with two things that are relatively new to his repertory: an overt social conscience and a sweet-natured fairy tale sensibility." (Read the full review...) 687 words, 10/21/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...an intimate movie made on a small scale but very nearly an instant classic, fueled by a passion for vintage French cinema and the neighborly, communal French society of years gone by, and employing director Aki Kaurismäki's bone-dry comedy to break through the wall of audience cynicism." (Read the full review...) 835 words, 05/17/11
Leslie Felperin, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "A semi-contempo fairy tale about a shoeshine man who finds redemption helping an African stowaway in the titular Normandy harbor.... a continual pleasure..." (Read the full review...) 708 words, 05/17/11 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "...presents a tender, warm embrace to those who find themselves rootless.... offers them and moviegoers an enchanted port in the storm, a cinematic refuge from real life where good intentions are enough." (Read the full review...) 898 words, 05/17/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "A droll ode to the downtrodden and dispossessed... joins Aki Kaurismäki's unmistakable stylistic flourishes with two things that are relatively new to his repertory: an overt social conscience and a sweet-natured fairy tale sensibility." (Read the full review...) 687 words, 10/21/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The superb Andre Wilms beautifully incarnates the craggy and unsentimental benchmark, a poet of the lower depths, in 'Le Havre,' the director's strongest work since 'The Man Who Forgot His Past'..." (Read the full review...) 859 words, 05/19/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "It may be conservative in its respect for older creative traditions, and also in its affection for the sturdy values of community, but it is also unapologetically radical in its antiauthoritarian spirit." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 10/21/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "...a subversively funny but tacitly serious drama about immigrant tides in contemporary Europe.... a variant of the notion that it takes a village to raise a child..." (Read the full review...) 398 words, 10/21/11
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