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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a delight.... a film with boundless energy, filmed in sunny pastoral settings, gloomy interiors and with authentic-looking sets and costumes." (Read the full review...) 577 words, 12/09/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: MODERATE "...chaotic, emphatic and sometimes enjoyably silly.... Mr. Fehling, tumbling from puppy dog eagerness into weepy, inky self-pity, never quite rises to the requirements of the role..." (Read the full review...) 528 words, 11/04/11 Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...has an awesome array of authentic settings that drench the film in period atmosphere and capable stars... Yet it drowns in swoony clichés." (Read the full review...) 293 words, 11/04/11 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "...looks great and the cast is appealing. But the story is riddled with clichés and fabrications, like a duel between Lotte's two suitors." (Read the full review...) 221 words, 11/04/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "An unexpected treat..." (Read the full review...) 494 words, 12/09/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a delight.... a film with boundless energy, filmed in sunny pastoral settings, gloomy interiors and with authentic-looking sets and costumes." (Read the full review...) 577 words, 12/09/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...for all of its obtuse choices, there's still something commendable, if daffy, about trying to turn the high holy father of German literature into a rock star..." (Read the full review...) 229 words, 11/02/11
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...if you set your expectations for a minor work about adoration rather than a masterpiece of a biopic, 'Young Goethe in Love' may prove an amusing diversion." (Read the full review...) 425 words, 01/27/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "A wide-screen period piece (1772, provincial Germany) that's more diverting than it is deep.... There's angst and anguish all over the place." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 12/09/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a fine romantic melodrama set in the sylvan countryside of 18th century Wetzlar..." (Read the full review...) 237 words, 04/03/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "...isn't bad -- in fact, it's a lot of fun, in its subtitled way.... But if you're seeking a genuine look into the development of one of the greatest writers in history, you're not going to find it here." (Read the full review...) 559 words, 01/20/12 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "Handsomely mounted, impassioned, and intermittently silly... plays fast and loose with the facts, but it has a sharp eye for 18th-century cubicle politics." (Read the full review...) 506 words, 01/20/12 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Johann Wolfgang Goethe knew how to party. Ambitious to become a poet, he had the sensibility of a rock star. He disdained tradition, took drugs, had sex on a first date, went to work hung over and was glib and confident." (Read the full review...) 341 words, 11/18/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "There are no villains in this drama, just a young man unlucky in love. Pain plus time, this film reminds us, can result in poetry." (Read the full review...) 305 words, 01/20/12 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's a fluffy but agreeable picture, although [Alexander] Fehling hardly evinces Goethe's powerful intellect." (Read the full review...) 132 words, 02/03/12 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...isn't to be taken as biographical truth... it's an old-fashioned romance that's easy to like even if you have no interest in German literature, illegal duels or the more romantic aspects of committing suicide." (Read the full review...) 329 words, 02/17/12
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...for all of its obtuse choices, there's still something commendable, if daffy, about trying to turn the high holy father of German literature into a rock star..." (Read the full review...) 229 words, 11/02/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "Lovely to look at, the film's vistas range from the rococo to the romantic. It gives short shrift to the poet, though, reducing his greatness to schtick, sentiment, and clichés." (Read the full review...) 164 words, 01/19/12 Keith Phipps, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Some touches, particularly the ending, are eye-rollers, but as literary wafers go, it's pleasant enough, though best countered with some sturm und drang within 24 hours of viewing." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 11/03/11 Andrew Schenker, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...so caught up in its own romantic notions (in its embrace of both German Romanticism and the small-r conception of the term) that it never bothers to question the validity of these ideas." (Read the full review...) 667 words, 10/30/11
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: FAIR "...takes the writer's artistic achievement and synthesis of real-life experience and turns it back on itself, while imposing upon it dramatic conventions that Goethe himself would have greeted with a resounding 'Nein!' " (Read the full review...) 558 words, 11/04/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: MODERATE "...chaotic, emphatic and sometimes enjoyably silly.... Mr. Fehling, tumbling from puppy dog eagerness into weepy, inky self-pity, never quite rises to the requirements of the role..." (Read the full review...) 528 words, 11/04/11 Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR: VERY GOOD "Charming in a way that American romantic comedies have all but forgotten... by turns cute, campy and endearingly cliched." (Read the full review...) 523 words, 11/04/11 Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...has an awesome array of authentic settings that drench the film in period atmosphere and capable stars... Yet it drowns in swoony clichés." (Read the full review...) 293 words, 11/04/11
Boyd Van Hoeij, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...writer/director Philipp Stoelzl and fellow screenwriters Christoph Mueller and Alexander Dydyna expertly alternate romance, humor and drama without losing their grip on the characters and their dilemmas." (Read the full review...) 752 words, 06/06/11 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Pitched somewhere between 'Bright Star' and 'Shakespeare in Love'... falls close enough to the latter author-based romance to inspire some guilt in any literature student seduced by its charms." (Read the full review...) 389 words, 11/01/11 Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...has an awesome array of authentic settings that drench the film in period atmosphere and capable stars... Yet it drowns in swoony clichés." (Read the full review...) 293 words, 11/04/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: MODERATE "...chaotic, emphatic and sometimes enjoyably silly.... Mr. Fehling, tumbling from puppy dog eagerness into weepy, inky self-pity, never quite rises to the requirements of the role..." (Read the full review...) 528 words, 11/04/11 John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: FAIR "...takes the writer's artistic achievement and synthesis of real-life experience and turns it back on itself, while imposing upon it dramatic conventions that Goethe himself would have greeted with a resounding 'Nein!' " (Read the full review...) 558 words, 11/04/11
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