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Born Romantic
Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    80
    Dancing, like being in love, sometimes means making a mess of things. Born Romantic makes glorious sense of that mess, trampled toes and all.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    80
    Kane believes in happy endings, but he makes his characters earn theirs, as each couple is forced, ever so subtly, to face its own inner nonsense. The filmmaker has divine actors at his disposal.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    80
    In its own modest, genial terms, the picture succeeds: it never wants to be more than charming and sweet, and it invites us to imagine London as a cozy, happy small town where coincidental encounters are everyday occurrences.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Derek Elley
    80
    Highly enjoyable when all its gears are clicking, but rarely as good as it should be.
  5. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    80
    Though perhaps too mainstream for the art-house crowd and too foreign for the multiplex, Born Romantic is a natural crowd-pleaser, and deserves to be more successful than its limited engagement may permit it to be.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    75
    Director David Kane handles the sprawling cast with aplomb as his characters learn some new steps in this life-and love-affirming movie.
  7. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Michael Dequina
    70
    Smoothly seductive.
  8. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    60
    Born Romantic feels less like it was born than assembled, in a kooky Britcom factory. It's no "Four Weddings and a Funeral," but it's certainly a happier conception than last month's "Maybe Baby."
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  9. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    60
    Although Born Romantic is sweetly intentioned and staunchly on the side of love, it meanders long to enough to alienate whatever affection it otherwise earns.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Only sporadically entertaining.
  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    The shame of it all is that Kane somehow managed to assemble an extraordinary cast, whose fine performances can't surmount the tedium of his script.
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