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100Here is the most passionate and tender love story in many years, so touching because it is not about a story, not about stars, not about a plot, not about sex, not about nudity, but about LOVE itself.
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100Films that achieve the dimension of seraphic embrace achieved by 'Innocence, as it explores a return to first love, are the rarest of the rare.
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88A beautiful, almost defiant film on an unusual subject: love among the elderly.
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88This is a beautifully acted chamber piece --especially by the magnificent Blake, who is married to Norris in real life.
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88If there's a more passionate love story out there, then I haven't had the privilege of seeing it.
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80Cox's own directorial style is innocent, in the sense of being original without ever straining for effect.
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80A film that's tender and disarming for its intimate honesty. It's also deeply refreshing to see a movie that dares to explore sexuality among mature characters.
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78The originality of Innocence makes it stand apart from the romantic pack.
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75This unusual romantic drama is sensitively acted by a well-chosen cast and subtly directed by Cox.
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75Remarkable in several big ways.
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75No situation could be more human, and it's one the youth-dominated film industry rarely touches.
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75Like an impressionist painting. Scrutinize it closely, and the details don't make sense individually. Step back from it to study the big picture, and it will make a sweeping effect.
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75Sometimes so intimate it's embarrassing, and the messiness at falling in love at any age is disquieting.
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70A beautifully acted, intensely felt story.
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70The film never quite shakes its self-consciousness about just how special it is and that is a hindrance.
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70A sweet but labored love story.
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70Paul Cox's admirers are sure to embrace this latest eruption of sincerity and sensitivity.
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63Innocence is a gentle love story, one that touches on an issue of great sensitivity -- sexuality in old age.
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63It's reassuring to see love and sex in one's 70s depicted as fully replenishing. At the same time, it's sobering to think that it's no easier in the twilight of life to make rational decisions regarding the heart.
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60Mostly mediocre melodrama, though the actors suffering over love's labors lost are quite fine.
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40Something lured Paul Cox down memory lane, but he should have stayed at home.
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40It's all so overdetermined -- each encounter of the present-day lovers mirrors some moment from the long-ago day when they parted -- that it reduces their whole affair to a matter of last-minute revisionism.