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Alynda Wheat, People: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the kind of courtship that ought to be on film... a most satisfying and wrenching romance." (Read the full review...) 98 words, 10/27/11 Mary Pols, Time: EXCELLENT "...hands the viewer an express ticket to revisit the magic of falling in love. But the film goes further, delving into the anatomy of a relationship..." (Read the full review...) 235 words, 10/21/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "It makes you squirm in your seat... these two people are so incredibly annoying together, you'd much rather see them apart." (Read the full review...) 598 words, 10/27/11 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...so raw and intimate, watching the appealing Jones and Yelchin giggle in his bedroom and bicker in her kitchen feels like an invasion of privacy." (Read the full review...) 178 words, 10/27/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an exquisite, happy/sad young-love story.... it tells the truth, simply: Love is thrilling. And -- just because of the way life happens -- sometimes love hurts." (Read the full review...) 303 words, 10/28/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Doremus provided an outline for his two remarkable young stars, but they improvised the dialogue, which rings funny, painful and unerringly true." (Read the full review...) 261 words, 10/28/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "No other recent film has so deftly captured the act of falling in love." (Read the full review...) 337 words, 10/28/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...well-made... Doremus handed his actors an outline and together they improvised every scene. Some of the whispered endearments under the sheets are delightful." (Read the full review...) 926 words, 11/04/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: EXCELLENT (cg) "...tells an affecting and genuine-seeming tale with not just disarming naturalism, but an admirable sense of proportion." (Read the full review...) 531 words, 10/25/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...it's surprising how a film aspiring to capture the 'reality' of a romance can be saddled with so much artifice.... it is intermittently exasperating and ultimately unsatisfying." (Read the full review...) 778 words, 11/03/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: MODERATE "...largely a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes, like scenes that start and end in medias res." (Read the full review...) 612 words, 10/28/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the film itself plays like one long trailer, a collection of moments and montages that hint at, but never quite achieve, a fully realized whole." (Read the full review...) 286 words, 10/28/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...excels at making first love feel as first time for us as it does for the characters." (Read the full review...) 733 words, 10/28/11 Sara Stewart, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Yelchin and Jones, both smart and lively actors, turn in very respectable performances, but lack the sparky intellectual and romantic connection of Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy..." (Read the full review...) 531 words, 10/28/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's entirely possible, maybe even inevitable, that it will win over a good many moviegoers despite its bouts of semipreciousness. In the end, I was one of them." (Read the full review...) 525 words, 11/04/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "A sincere and well-intentioned romance, but too bad the central lovebirds are so utterly banal." (Read the full review...) 351 words, 11/04/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD "Director Drake Doremus gets the tempos right. The movie jumps when it needs to and slows when it must.... 'Like Crazy's' perspective is wonderfully sane." (Read the full review...) 563 words, 10/24/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...well-made... Doremus handed his actors an outline and together they improvised every scene. Some of the whispered endearments under the sheets are delightful." (Read the full review...) 926 words, 11/04/11 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "The idea is to show love in incidentals rather than big scenes, but the fragments selected do not build to any significance -- this is a rote story, arbitrarily scattered..." (Read the full review...) 205 words, 10/26/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "Doremus does things in a way that can be rather irritating, using jumpy camerawork in some scenes... Frequent injections of sombre piano music are even more annoying." (Read the full review...) 474 words, 11/04/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "Keen to be both really romantic and romantically real, the movie is neither, and falls between the cracks of its twin-ambitions. The result? Call it l'amour phooey." (Read the full review...) 653 words, 11/04/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "The spare, suggestive script - devised through improvisation - and deeply felt performances by the appealing leads make this a real heartbreaker." (Read the full review...) 148 words, 11/03/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an over-the-shoulder view of a relationship at just about every stage of its morphology.... it seems to say, haven't we all been there? Didn't it hurt? And wasn't it grand?" (Read the full review...) 431 words, 11/04/11 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones are up to the challenge of suggesting much by doing little." (Read the full review...) 536 words, 10/21/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...only rarely earns a tear, only occasionally insists that we shout 'Hang the practicality! You kids HAVE to be together!' In its own way, that's a good thing..." (Read the full review...) 621 words, 11/18/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "The cast creates such a naturalistic sense of empathy -- a complicity, even -- with the viewers that we're swept up into their characters' lives." (Read the full review...) 511 words, 11/04/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "...requires some seriously good improvisational acting on the part of the leads. Luckily, Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones, especially, are up to the task." (Read the full review...) 591 words, 11/11/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...gets the evanescence of young passion right - the way it ultimately has to burn off, leaving us standing in an unfamiliar adult world. But it never convinces us of the fire itself." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 11/04/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...has its small, sweet good points." (Read the full review...) 495 words, 10/28/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...makes other romantic films look obvious and calculated in comparison. The emotions are raw. The technique is spare." (Read the full review...) 714 words, 11/04/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "While the film is often quite moving, it's also at times frustrating; people in love, we realize, aren't always as fascinating to the rest of us as they are to each other." (Read the full review...) 414 words, 11/11/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin play Anna and Jacob as, it would seem, people very like themselves..." (Read the full review...) 322 words, 11/11/11 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a beautifully realized drama that gets to the essence of what it's like to be young, confused and in love.... all the more impressive for being improvised." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 11/11/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: POOR (cg) "...so intent on being untypical that it forsakes everything that makes a movie work, like a plot, meaningful dialogue and characters we care about." (Read the full review...) 424 words, 11/17/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "There's a too-typical indie film inconclusiveness to the ending, but the film still works, thanks greatly to the talents of the well-established Yelchin and dazzling newcomer Jones." (Read the full review...) 305 words, 11/11/11 Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "...we end up not interested enough to make a commitment." (Read the full review...) 573 words, 11/11/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "The idea is to show love in incidentals rather than big scenes, but the fragments selected do not build to any significance -- this is a rote story, arbitrarily scattered..." (Read the full review...) 205 words, 10/26/11 Betsy Sherman, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an unsentimental but emotionally engaging portrait of how a couple can make a relationship work -- or not -- when half a world separates them." (Read the full review...) 154 words, 11/03/11 Alison Willmore, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...a lightweight addition to a welcome recent trend of bittersweet, realistic semi-romances that includes 'Blue Valentine' and 'Weekend.' " (Read the full review...) 426 words, 10/27/11 R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "Never do you feel a strong attachment to, or sympathy for, this pair, as their chemistry is nonexistent and only one of them seems at all invested, or even interested, in their bond." (Read the full review...) 804 words, 10/27/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "The spare, suggestive script - devised through improvisation - and deeply felt performances by the appealing leads make this a real heartbreaker." (Read the full review...) 148 words, 11/03/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) "The pleasure of the film is how it refuses to give Anna and Jacob easy paths or easy outs for their mistakes, yet never gives up hope..." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 10/31/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a wise and beautiful little film about two lovers falling from a state of grace." (Read the full review...) 529 words, 10/28/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: MODERATE "...largely a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes, like scenes that start and end in medias res." (Read the full review...) 612 words, 10/28/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...excels at making first love feel as first time for us as it does for the characters." (Read the full review...) 733 words, 10/28/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "...features some lovely, relaxed performances. This movie's either going to speak straight to your heart or it very much won't, and I fall into the 'nope' category." (Read the full review...) 853 words, 10/27/11
Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...an exquisite, beautifully acted gem.... contains nary an extraneous detail, while still managing to luxuriate in the tender and awkward silences of young love." (Read the full review...) 694 words, 01/22/11 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "Bruisingly bittersweet and made with the kind of tenderness that suggests a deep personal significance." (Read the full review...) 520 words, 01/22/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...excels at making first love feel as first time for us as it does for the characters." (Read the full review...) 733 words, 10/28/11 Patrick Z. McGavin, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a French New Wave-inflected mood piece charting the jagged and unpredictable emotional currents of a young couple." (Read the full review...) 863 words, 01/24/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: MODERATE "...largely a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes, like scenes that start and end in medias res." (Read the full review...) 612 words, 10/28/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...a wise and beautiful little film about two lovers falling from a state of grace." (Read the full review...) 529 words, 10/28/11
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