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76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Gentle, humanistic, delicious.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    91
    But while this piquant, tapas-like movie (a 2003 film- festival favorite only now being released) asserts that landscape is a kind of destiny from which one cannot escape, Sorin takes delighted, serious interest in how far a person can advance psychologically, even if all roads lead back to a home at the end of the world.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    90
    Endowed with captivating simplicity, gentle humor, rich humanity and infectious generosity of spirit.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Bill White
    83
    Genuinely funny and sweet, the film's "everybody wins" philosophy resonates beyond the feel-good surfaces.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: David Ng
    80
    It's a perfectly realized grace note whose lack of any obvious message only reinforces the movie's abundant wisdom and patient humanism.
  6. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    80
    The name of Hugo Colace ought to be known to the film world. He is the cinematographer of an Argentinean film called Intimate Stories. Not since some Tibetan films have I seen such vastness, sparsely inhabited, almost ringing with immensity.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    As stripped down as its title, this gentle Argentinian road movie makes much out of very little.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    Has no profound statements to make, but it does provide warm and fuzzy comfort.
  9. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    A delightful road movie.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    Warm and frequently very funny, Argentine director Carlos Sorin's third feature weaves together three story lines into one road-tripping adventure that's a joy ride from beginning to end.
  11. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    This is a charming, low-key entry in the burgeoning tradition of travelog indies -- by which I mean feature films that take you to some godforsaken outback you're unlikely to visit personally.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    Almost every frame of this modest gem of a movie, directed by Carlos Sorin from a screenplay by Pablo Solarz, conveys the emptiness of the environment in which three interwoven vignettes unfold.
  13. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    60
    Intimate Stories stays doggedly, purposefully minor, in part because director Carlos Sorin and screenwriter Pablo Solarz want to explore the casual interactions of people doing nothing.
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8.7 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. DonaldW.
    3
    The english translation of the title is incorrect: "minimas" means "smallest", not "intimate," and these three stories are about the smallest you'll ever sit through. Nearly as boring as the Patagonian countryside where it takes place.… Full Review »
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