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Cosė ridevano
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68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    This is a film precisely constructed, brilliantly imagined.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: F. X. Feeney
    90
    Writer-director Gianni Amelio masterfully chronicles the ways two people can betray each other, and especially themselves, in the name of love.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    The sweeping, confounding conclusion therefore unfolds with a beauty and an ease that seem truly organic. The Way We Laughed has that feeling of being a work of art.
  4. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Marta Barber
    88
    If you like guessing games, don't miss it.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Damon Smith
    88
    A film of great ingenuity and imagination, full of suggestive power, and it deserves to be seen.
  6. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    88
    Shows the fate of Sicilians who moved to the Italian industrial city of Turin 40-plus years ago, and it suggests that the experience of relocation is universal.
  7. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: David Ehrenstein
    80
    Beautifully made and performed, this is a film of considerable insight into both the life of the impoverished and the mystery of human personality.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    75
    Longwinded, slow-starting but moving film.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    The film, beautifully shot in widescreen by Luca Bigazzi, is surprisingly accessible and always engaging, if ultimately tragic.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    The movie is powerfully acted. Mr. Lo Verso's passionate, fiery-eyed Giovanni is an incandescent star turn by an actor with world class charisma.
  11. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Saul Austerlitz
    60
    It's a damn impressive trick to build a film around narrative frustration and not cause your audience to run out screaming.
  12. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    60
    Wears its art, as well as its heart, on its sleeve -- so much so that I feel guilty for not liking it more.
  13. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    50
    Exploring a specific generational moment in mid-century Italy's social weft, Amelio's family saga might be his grimmest film, if only for the tragic exploitation of fraternity.
  14. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    40
    Problematically structured, overly protracted and lacking in narrative fluidity.
  15. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    A ponderously slow experience.
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