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Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenScherfig and her wonderful cast slyly transmute the quotidian into the magical. It’s like watching flowers bloom in a concrete garden.
- 90Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThis is a woman's work in the best sense -- empathetic, inferentially erotic and delicately intuitive, as well as fiercely intelligent.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them.
- 88Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowItalian for Beginners, on its own small scale, is a one-of-a-kind movie: a baggy-pants spiritual comedy.
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThis is a movie that doesn't depend for its effects on star performers or stylized wish-fulfillment sexuality but on realism, sharp observation and honest humor.
- 88New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardIt's the rare film, Dogma or otherwise, that keeps you smiling long after the lights come up.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA funny, relationship-driven ensemble piece that takes the chill out of the Danish winter with a snuggly blanket of humanism.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickHas a generosity of spirit and a wonderfully upbeat ending that makes it a nice little antidote to a bleak season.
- 70VarietyEddie CockrellVarietyEddie CockrellThe most nonconfrontational and thus accessible title in the Dogma lot to date, and will speak the international language of proletariat love to arthouse auds who go for such fare.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenWill be of interest for anyone seeking unconventional romantic stories as well as those curious about the development of the Dogme movement.