67
Metascore
25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannDisarms with its sincerity and frankness.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThis patient, perceptive, nonjudgmental love story about age difference is the first to convincingly explain the temporal physics of May-December romances.
- 90VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyWonderfully acted and slickly mad. Acutely written with an eye to the motivations and ambiguities involved on both sides in such a relationship.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickShould make Polley, memorable in "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Go," into a bona-fide star.
- 75TNT RoughCutTNT RoughCutPolley's doe-eyed innocence is in overdrive.
- 63Chicago TribuneJohn PetrakisChicago TribuneJohn PetrakisA shy and depressed college graduate falls in love with a Bohemian artist, as in Woody Allen's "Manhattan."
- 63USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkThe cumbersome wrap-up, which follows a four-year narrative gap, seems too fanciful and bogs down what has been a stronger second hour.
- 60Film.comErnest HardyFilm.comErnest HardyA good, though unremarkable, film.
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghDeftly mixes rueful sentimentality and trenchant observations about the constantly shifting balance of power that drives relationships.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisSan Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisImplausibly dainty.